LotteryPowerball Winning Numbers for August 28, 2021
Official Powerball drawing results for August 28, 2021, including the jackpot amount, prize breakdown, and how many winners were reported at each tier.
About This Drawing
The five main numbers in this Powerball drawing summed to 165, spanning from 12 to 59 (a span of 47), with an odd-to-even split of 1:4. Across the three number zones, the split was 2:2:1. The AC value (a measure of how spread out the numbers are) was 6, and there were 0 consecutive pairs among them. This drawing's sum was about 12 points lower than the 177-point average across every Powerball drawing on record.
The Powerball, 26, falls in zone 4 of 4, is big, even, and lands on road 2 (its value mod 3). These are simple descriptive statistics about this one drawing, not predictions — see how lottery odds actually work for why past patterns don't affect future draws. Compare this drawing against others on the Powerball trend chart.
Prize Breakdown
| Match | Prize | Odds |
|---|---|---|
| 5 + Powerball | Jackpot | 1 in 292,201,338 |
| 5 | $1,000,000 | 1 in 11,688,053 |
| 4 + Powerball | $50,000 | 1 in 913,129 |
| 4 | $100 | 1 in 36,525 |
| 3 + Powerball | $100 | 1 in 14,494 |
| 3 | $7 | 1 in 579 |
| 2 + Powerball | $7 | 1 in 701 |
| 1 + Powerball | $4 | 1 in 92 |
| 0 + Powerball | $4 | 1 in 38 |
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