Indiana and Kansas Split the $143.4 Million Powerball Jackpot. 89 Players also won $1 million or more!

Two players are splitting the Powerball jackpot after Wednesday night's April 29, 2026 drawing. One winning ticket was sold in Indiana and one in Kansas. Each winner will take home an equal share of the $143.4 million prize. Neither winner has come forward yet to claim their prize, and full details will follow once they do.

The winning numbers were 3, 19, 35, 51, 67 and Powerball 15. The Power Play multiplier was 2x. Double Play numbers were 7, 52, 56, 67, 69 and Powerball 3. Verify your tickets on the Powerball past results page or use the Powerball number checker.

The jackpot-winning ticket in Indiana was sold at Al's Supermarket on East Lincolnway in La Porte. The Kansas Lottery does not release information about the retailer that sold its jackpot-winning ticket.

89 Second-Tier Winners: A Powerball Record

The 89 players who matched all five white balls in Wednesday's drawing set a Powerball record for the most second-tier winners in a single drawing. The previous record had never reached this level. It's an extraordinary result for a single draw, and the explanation behind it is more straightforward than you might expect.

The numbers drawn (3, 19, 35, 51, 67) follow a pattern that a significant number of players appear to have picked by marking their play slips visually rather than randomly. When you look at how Powerball play slips are laid out, the white ball numbers are arranged in columns. In several states including Indiana and New Jersey, the numbers on a standard play slip run vertically in a way that makes 3, 19, 35, 51, and 67 land in a near-diagonal or straight-line pattern of filled-in dots on the paper. Players who fill out tickets by drawing a line, an X, or any consistent visual pattern across the grid can inadvertently pick the same set of numbers as thousands of other players doing the same thing.

This helps explain why Indiana produced 19 second-tier winners and one jackpot winner in the same drawing, and why New Jersey produced 18 second-tier winners despite not having a jackpot ticket. Both states' play slip layouts make these particular numbers easy to select through pattern-filling. The high winner counts aren't a statistical anomaly. They're a direct result of how many people pick numbers based on how the slip looks rather than selecting independently.

The broader lesson is one that lottery analysts have noted for years: numbers chosen through visual patterns on play slips are shared by far more players than numbers chosen randomly. That doesn't affect your odds of winning. It does affect how much you win if you hit, since jackpots and certain prizes are split among all winners. Players who use the Powerball random number generator are less likely to share a combination with thousands of other players, because truly random picks don't cluster around play slip patterns the way human-selected numbers do.

89 Players Win $1,000,000 Matching the First 5 Numbers

Matching all five white balls without the Powerball wins $1,000,000. In Wednesday's drawing, 61 players across all states except California did exactly that. An additional 27 of those players had purchased the Power Play option, which doubles the $1,000,000 prize to $2,000,000 at this prize level. One California player also matched all five numbers, earning $745,393 under California's pari-mutuel prize structure, which calculates payouts differently from other states.

That brings the total number of $1,000,000 or higher non-jackpot winners to 89 across the country from this single drawing.

Here's the state-by-state breakdown of the 5+0 winners:

Arizona: 1 winner ($1,000,000)
Arkansas: 2 winners (1 with Power Play, $2,000,000; 1 standard, $1,000,000)
California: 1 winner ($745,393 under California's pari-mutuel rules)
Georgia: 1 winner ($1,000,000)
Illinois: 4 winners (1 with Power Play, $2,000,000; 3 standard, $1,000,000 each)
Indiana: 19 winners (5 with Power Play, $2,000,000 each; 14 standard, $1,000,000 each)
Kansas: 6 winners (1 with Power Play, $2,000,000; 5 standard, $1,000,000 each)
Kentucky: 1 winner ($1,000,000)
Louisiana: 11 winners (5 with Power Play, $2,000,000 each; 6 standard, $1,000,000 each)
Michigan: 1 winner ($1,000,000)
Minnesota: 1 winner ($1,000,000)
Mississippi: 1 winner with Power Play ($2,000,000)
Missouri: 1 winner ($1,000,000)
Nebraska: 2 winners ($1,000,000 each)
New Jersey: 18 winners (4 with Power Play, $2,000,000 each; 14 standard, $1,000,000 each)
Oregon: 4 winners (3 with Power Play, $2,000,000 each; 1 standard, $1,000,000)
Pennsylvania: 7 winners (2 with Power Play, $2,000,000 each; 5 standard, $1,000,000 each)
Rhode Island: 1 winner with Power Play ($2,000,000)
South Carolina: 1 winner with Power Play ($2,000,000)
Wisconsin: 6 winners (2 with Power Play, $2,000,000 each; 4 standard, $1,000,000 each)

Full Prize Breakdown for the April 29 Drawing

Beyond the jackpot and the $1,000,000 tier, Wednesday's drawing produced wins across all prize levels. In total, 315,742 players across all states except California won prizes in this drawing, with the combined payout reaching $117,338,784 for that group alone.

At the 4+1 level (matching four white balls plus the Powerball), 6 players won $50,000 each and 2 Power Play holders won $100,000, totaling $300,200 at that tier. The 4+0 tier (four white balls, no Powerball) saw 201 standard winners at $100 and 83 Power Play winners at $200. Matching 3+1 paid $100 standard and $200 with Power Play across 381 and 176 winners respectively.

The two most common winning combinations were 1+1 (matching one white ball and the Powerball), which paid $4 standard and $8 with Power Play across over 86,000 combined winners, and 0+1 (Powerball only), which paid $4 and $8 across over 203,000 combined winners.

What Happens Next

The two jackpot winners from Indiana and Kansas have not yet come forward. Powerball winners typically have between 90 days and one year to claim their prizes depending on the state, and large jackpot winners often take weeks to consult attorneys and financial advisors before claiming. Both states will announce the winning ticket locations once the claims are processed.

With the jackpot now reset, Powerball will start building again from its base amount for the next drawing. Check the Powerball jackpot history page to see how past jackpots have grown between resets, and use the Powerball random number generator to pick numbers for upcoming drawings. For scratch-off players in the winning states, the Indiana scratch-off rankings and Kansas scratch-off rankings show which games currently have the best odds and most prizes remaining.