Powerball and the National Football League have launched Powerball Xs & Os, a new weekly multi-state draw game now available through 23 U.S. lottery jurisdictions. Ticket sales began September 8, and the first drawing was held September 13.
The participating lotteries are Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont and West Virginia.
Each $5 play asks players to select eight NFL team logos from the league’s 32 teams. Eight logos are drawn at random each Sunday at 10 p.m. Eastern Time, independent of NFL game results. Matching all eight wins the rolling cash jackpot, which starts at $1 million, while matching four through seven teams wins a lower-tier prize. The overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 12.16.
The game also introduces the first national promotional prize program in Powerball history. Both winning and nonwinning Xs & Os tickets can be entered at PowerballOfficial.com for chances to win NFL merchandise and experiences, including a trip to Super Bowl LXI.
The inaugural drawing produced more than 39,000 winning tickets but no jackpot winner. Because winning-ticket counts exceeded statistical expectations across several prize tiers, lower-tier awards were paid on a pari-mutuel basis under the game rules.