Overview
- Allwyn began selling Powerball tickets on Tuesday, July 21, with retailers reporting the first in‑store sale in Pocklington and the first online purchase via the National Lottery app in Brighton early on launch morning.
- The first Powerball draw open to UK ticket‑holders is scheduled for Thursday, July 23, with draws held three times a week at about 4am UK time and a purchase cut‑off of 11:55pm the night before each draw.
- UK players pay £4 per line to enter the same US‑run draws, but lower prizes use a UK‑specific structure that fixes matching two main numbers at £8 and matching five main numbers at £1 million.
- Jackpots available to UK players are uncapped and currently advertised in the low hundreds of millions of dollars — reported around $416m (roughly £300–£311m) — and UK jackpots will be paid as a 30‑year annuity rather than an immediate US cash option.
- Allwyn says the launch follows a major £450m tech migration and a June Lotto overhaul, and the operator expects bigger jackpots to boost ticket sales and add funding for good causes while changing the scale of potential wins for British players.