Games, draw days and results for California players.
| Game | Draw days | Price | Jackpot odds | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Powerball | Monday, Wednesday & Saturday | $2 | 1 in 292,201,338 | see draws |
| Mega Millions | Tuesday & Friday | $5 | 1 in 290,472,336 | see draws |
| SuperLotto Plus | Wednesday & Saturday | $1 | 1 in 41,416,353 | see draws |
| Daily 3 | Daily, 1:00pm & 6:30pm | $1 | 1 in 1,000 (straight) | see draws |
| Daily 4 | Daily, 6:30pm | $1 | 1 in 10,000 (straight) | see draws |
| Fantasy 5 | Daily, 6:30pm | $1 | 1 in 575,757 | see draws |
Two kinds of game are listed above, and they behave differently. Powerball and Mega Millions are national games: the winning numbers are identical in every participating state, and only the ticket price, claiming process and tax treatment change from state to state. The rest are California-only games, with their own draws.
| Game | Draw date | Winning numbers | Special |
|---|---|---|---|
| Powerball | Oct 28, 2026 | 11, 13, 16, 47, 60 | 13 |
| Mega Millions | Oct 30, 2026 | 5, 10, 38, 49, 68 | 17 |
Full history for each game is linked below. California draw games are regenerated daily from public results data.
These counts come from the draw history archived on this site for California. They are counts, not forecasts: every ball in the machine is independent, and a number that has appeared often is not more or less likely next time.
| Game | Draws archived | Date range | Most drawn number | Least drawn | Odd share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Powerball | 200 | Jul 21, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | 64 (24 times) | 1 (6 times) | 49% |
| Mega Millions | 200 | Dec 03, 2024 – Oct 30, 2026 | 49 (23 times) | 23, 29, 44 (8 times) | 48% |
Only California's own games are broken out below, because the national games produce identical numbers in every state and repeating them here would tell you nothing about California.
No state-only games are archived for this state yet.
With 4 state-only games and a few hundred draws apiece, gaps of two or three appearances between the busiest and quietest number are ordinary. That spread is what a fair draw looks like at this sample size, not a lead to follow. The counts are here so you can check a ticket, settle an argument, or see how a game has behaved over time — not to forecast the next draw, which no archive can do.
Each of these is drawn by the California lottery on its own calendar, independent of the national games. Several run two draws a day, which is why the same game can legitimately show two results for one date. The individual game pages keep the last 200 results with the date of every draw, so an old ticket can still be checked.
California does not tax state lottery prizes; federal withholding still applies.
California is the one state in this set where the prize money is not touched by the state at all. A California Lottery prize is not subject to California income tax, so the only amount taken out before you are paid is the federal withholding on larger wins. That single rule changes the arithmetic of a big win compared with states that withhold on top of the federal cut, and it is the first thing worth checking before anyone starts planning around a ticket.
The other thing that sets this market apart is Scratchers. California publishes game-level detail for every scratch ticket in the state, including how many top prizes were printed, how many have been claimed, and what is still on the shelf. That data is what the scratcher ranking on this site is built from: instead of judging a ticket by the jackpot printed on the front, the ranking compares what a game still has left to give against its price and its odds. It is the closest thing to a real measure of value in a category where almost every ticket looks the same at the counter.
Where the money goes is published as well: ninety-five cents of every dollar played is returned through prizes, retailer compensation and contributions to public schools and colleges, which makes the California system one of the more transparent ones to read about.
Ninety-five cents of every player dollar goes back to the community through contributions to public schools and colleges, prizes and retail compensation.
Always confirm a winning ticket with the state lottery itself. This site publishes results for information, and while the data is refreshed daily, only the lottery can validate a claim.
Draw history is pulled from public record (calottery.com and the national game datasets), then rendered here. Scratcher data is published by the state lottery itself and changes as tickets are sold.
Daily. National draws are refreshed the morning after each draw, and the game pages keep the last 200 results.
No. Draws are independent, and a number being overdue or hot does not change its chance. The history is useful for checking tickets and seeing how jackpots rolled.
They come from public results data and are checked against the game's published results. In any discrepancy, the state lottery's numbers stand.