How Is Powerball Money Divided By States

If y'all haven't come close to winning either the Powerball or Mega Millions jackpot, mayhap it'southward time to change the location of where you buy your tickets.

Of course, buying a ticket in another state won't guarantee you luck, either.

Nosotros tracked down where the luckiest states are for Powerball and Mega Millions, the two nearly popular national lottery games.

Six states – Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Mississippi, Nevada and Utah – do not have state lotteries, and therefore exercise not sell Powerball or Mega Millions tickets.

But the other 44 states, plus Washington, D.C., the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, do play Powerball. So, where does your state rank?

Powerball

With 39 winners, Indiana represents over 10% of all jackpot winners in this game.

Missouri is 2d with 31 winners, followed past Minnesota at 22.

Florida has had 12 big winners, including a Melbourne Beach couple, Maureen Smith and David Kaltschmidt, who shared the biggest jackpot of any kind in U.S. history, dividing the $1.58 billion prize on Jan. 13, 2016, with winners from California and Tennessee.

Maureen Smith and David Kaltschmidt of Melbourne Beach, Florida, claim their Powerball jackpot in Tallahassee on Feb. 17.

Just four states – Maine, N Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming – plus the U.Due south. Virgin Islands – have all the same to sell a ticket with six matching numbers.

Amazingly, five Powerball tickets have gone unclaimed, including a ticket worth $16 one thousand thousand purchased at a suburban Tampa convenience store in 2013.

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Country-by-state Powerball jackpot winners

Indiana: 39
Missouri: 31
Minnesota: 22
Kentucky: eighteen
Pennsylvania: xviii
Louisiana: 17
Wisconsin: 17
Arizona: 13
Florida: 12
Kansas: 11
New Hampshire: xi
Washington, D.C.: 11
New York: 11
Nebraska: 10
Delaware: ten
Iowa: 9
California: ix
New Bailiwick of jersey: 8
West Virginia: 8
Connecticut: 8
Rhode Island: 8
Tennessee: seven
S Carolina: 6
Due north Carolina: six
Georgia: 6
Massachusetts: six
New Mexico: 5
Oregon: five
Idaho: 5
Oklahoma: 4
Montana: 4
Michigan: 4
Ohio: iii
Colorado: 3
Southward Dakota: 3
Puerto Rico: 2
Texas: 2
Illinois: 2
Maryland: 2
Virginia: ane
Arkansas: 1
Washington: i
Maine: 0
North Dakota: 0
Vermont: 0
Wyoming: 0
U.S. Virgin Islands: 0

Mega Millions

When it comes to the Mega Millions, simply 25 states accept claimed big jackpot winners, with New York'southward 37 mega-millionaires leading the way.

California is second with 31 and Ohio recently joined New Bailiwick of jersey in a third-place tie with 20. The latest Ohio winner claimed a $375 million jackpot on Dec. 17.

Sadly, three winning Mega Millions jackpot tickets – all bought in New York, in 2002, 2003 and 2006 – went unclaimed.

Land-by-state Mega Millions jackpot winners