Your Plan For A Powerball Payoff

The payoff is just too big not to play. So take a quarter, call it heads or tails and flip it. Let’s say you called heads and it came up heads – cool. Now toss 27 more consecutive heads in a row. That would be about your chance of winning!

So what you need is a plan based on the reality of history.

Powerball.com records indicate the following numbers have come up the most often in the last 14 years:

White balls: the five most common white ball winners are 26, 20, 32, 16, and 42. The number 26 ball has been picked 151 times in the past 14 years, the most of any number.

Red ball: the number 20 red ball has been a winner 49 times, more than any other.

Where are you buying your ticket? Believe it or not, the state of Pennsylvania has had more winners --16 in the years since 2003-- than any other US state. The top-20 states for winners (in case you're thinking about buying a ticket in a state which has had more winners):
16. (tie) Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Dakota and Rhode Island, 3 each
13. (tie) New York, Oklahoma and West Virginia, 4 each
9. (tie) Arizona, Connecticut, Kentucky and Wisconsin, 5 each
6. (tie) Iowa, Minnesota and South Carolina, 6 each
4. (tie) Florida and Missouri, 7 each
3. Louisiana, 8
2. Indiana, 11
1. Pennsylvania, 16 winners