(a) Determination of
expected prize payout percentages is as follows:
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Tickets Containing The Following, In One
Single Lettered Game Section
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Prize Category
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Prize Payment
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Approximate Percentage of Winnings Pool
Allocated to Prize Category**
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Five first set numbers and the Powerball number
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Grand Prize
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Grand Prize
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63.9511%
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Five first set numbers
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Second Prize*
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$1,000,000
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19.4038%
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Four first set numbers and the Powerball number
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Third Prize*
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$10,000
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1.5409%
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Four first set numbers
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Fourth Prize*
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$100
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.5239%
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Three first set numbers and the Powerball number
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Fifth Prize*
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$100
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.8167%
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Three first set numbers
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Sixth Prize*
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$7
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1.9437%
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Two first set numbers and the Powerball number
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Seventh Prize*
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$7
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.9909%
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One first set number and the
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Eighth Prize*
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$4
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3.6097%
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Powerball number
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Ninth Prize*
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$4
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7.2194%
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* Indicates a set prize.
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** Fifty percent of Powerball gross sales are
allocated to the winnings pool for the payment of prizes.
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(b)
Prize money allocated to the grand prize category will be paid on a parimutuel
basis, divided equally by the number of plays determined by the MUSL to be the
winners of the grand prize.
(c) The
number of plays determined by the MUSL to be winners of the second through
ninth prize categories will be paid as set cash prizes, except as provided in
paragraphs (1) through (4).
(1) Except as
otherwise provided in section
871.8(c)(4), if the totat of the set prizes
awarded in a Powerball drawing exceeds the set prize pool which is 18.0244% of
gross sales, the amount needed to fund the set prizes, including Power play
prizes, shall be drawn from the following sources in the following order:
(i) The amount allocated to the set prize
tiers and carried forward from previous draws, if any.
(ii) An amount from the MUSL set prize
reserve account, if available, not to exceed $40,000,000 per Powerball
drawing.
(2) Except as
otherwise provided in section
871.8(c)(4), if the sources set forth in
paragraph (1) are depleted and there still are not sufficient funds to pay the
set prizes, including Power play prizes, for a particular Powerball drawing,
the highest set prize shall become a parimutuel prize. If the amount of the
highest set prize, when paid as a parimutuel prize, is less than or equal to
the next highest set prize and there are still not sufficient funds to pay the
remaining set prizes, the next highest set prize shall become a parimutuel
prize. If necessary, and under the same test conditions set forth in the
preceding sentence, each succeeding set prize level shall be converted to a
parimutuel prize, in order, until all set prizes become parimutuel.
(3) Except for winning prizes sold by the
California Lottery, if all, or any portion of the set prize pool is not awarded
in the current Powerball drawing, that portion of the set prize pool shall be
carried forward to subsequent Powerball drawings.
(4) By agreement with the Licensee Lotteries,
the Licensee Lotteries shall independently calculate their set parimutuel prize
amounts. The Party Lotteries and the Licensee Lotteries shall then agree to set
the parimutuel prize amounts for all lotteries selling the game at the lesser
of the independently-calculated prize amounts.
