PowerBall Plus Latest Payouts — 9 October 2026
The second table of the most recent draw night, verified against official results. The highlighted final row is the game's one fixed prize.
| Division | Match | Winners | Payout per Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Division 1 (Jackpot) | 5 + PowerBall | 0 | Rollover — added to the next Plus draw |
| Division 2 | 5 (no PB) | 0 | R0.00 |
| Division 3 | 4 + PowerBall | 14 | R24 715.10 |
| Division 4 | 4 (no PB) | 192 | R1 000.00 |
| Division 5 | 3 + PowerBall | 614 | R250.00 |
| Division 6 | 3 (no PB) | 9 366 | R50.00 |
| Division 7 | 2 + PowerBall | 8 872 | R50.00 |
| Division 8 | 1 + PowerBall | 49 431 | R10.00 |
| Division 9 (Fixed) | PowerBall only | 85 064 | R5.00 |
The Winner-Count Mirror — How Many Players Add the R2.50?
Ithuba doesn't publish entry counts, but the payout tables leak the answer. Every ticket faces identical odds in both games — so in the high-volume lower divisions, the ratio of Plus winners to main-game winners on the same night approximates the share of players who ticked the Plus box. Here is the mirror for 9 October 2026:
| Division | Match | ⚡ PowerBall Winners | ➕ Plus Winners |
|---|---|---|---|
| Division 1 | 5 + PowerBall | 0 | 0 |
| Division 2 | 5 (no PB) | 1 | 0 |
| Division 3 | 4 + PowerBall | 28 | 14 |
| Division 4 | 4 (no PB) | 355 | 192 |
| Division 5 | 3 + PowerBall | 1 091 | 614 |
| Division 6 | 3 (no PB) | 16 269 | 9 366 |
| Division 7 | 2 + PowerBall | 15 151 | 8 872 |
| Division 8 | 1 + PowerBall | 77 139 | 49 431 |
| Division 9 | PowerBall only | 122 449 | 85 064 |
Averaged across the high-volume divisions, the Plus draw produced roughly 61% as many winning tickets as the main game that night — a real-data estimate of Plus participation, and the entire explanation for why pooled Plus payouts run smaller: fewer R2.50s in, smaller divisions out. Nothing about the game itself is stingier; the pot simply has fewer contributors.
What Each Plus Division Has Typically Paid
Average payout per winning ticket across the 160 verified Plus draws in our archive (draws where the division paid):
| Division | Match | Average Payout per Winner |
|---|---|---|
| Division 1 | 5 + PowerBall | R21 450 612.47 |
| Division 2 | 5 (no PB) | R932 050.39 |
| Division 3 | 4 + PowerBall | R9 539.33 |
| Division 4 | 4 (no PB) | R608.27 |
| Division 5 | 3 + PowerBall | R255.14 |
| Division 6 | 3 (no PB) | R17.72 |
| Division 7 | 2 + PowerBall | R17.71 |
| Division 8 | 1 + PowerBall | R7.92 |
| Division 9 | PowerBall only | R10.00 (fixed, every draw) |
The Biggest Plus Jackpot Payouts We Have on Record
| Draw Date | Jackpot Winners | Div 1 Payout per Winner |
|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2025 | 1 | R69 284 927.70 |
| 28 March 2025 | 1 | R47 845 477.40 |
| 16 January 2026 | 1 | R33 799 937.90 |
Two Things That Never Shrink With the Pool
- The R10 floor. Division 9 — matching the PowerBall alone — pays a fixed R10 in Plus exactly as in the main game, whatever the pool size. It's the only PowerBall-family payout immune to sales, and the reason a Plus line carries the same ~1-in-18 any-prize odds as a main line.
- The rollover engine. An unwon Plus jackpot rolls, uncapped, into the next Plus draw — never diluted into the main game. Give it a few quiet weeks and the "smaller" jackpot becomes serious money, as the record table above shows.
Everything else — pooled divisions 2–8, equal splitting, sales-driven sizing — behaves exactly as documented on the PowerBall payouts page, just at Plus scale. Claims, deadlines and tax treatment are identical too: tax-free, 365 days, same channels — the step-by-step lives on that page.
The Two-Line Habit That Recovers Real Money
- Never judge a ticket by its main line. The Plus draw's numbers are always different; a main-line blank leaves the Plus line fully alive — including the fixed R10, which alone recovers the add-on cost four times over.
- Check them together, not sequentially. The ticket checker runs both lines in one pass — the sequential habit ("main first, Plus if I remember") is exactly where the forgetting happens.
- Old tickets are worth a second look. With a 365-day window, that drawer of "losing" tickets may hold unchecked Plus lines from months of draws. The Plus results archive covers every verified draw.
- And the constant that never changes: nothing here — mirrors, averages, records — moves the odds. 1 in 42,375,200 per line for the jackpot, in both games, every draw.