Powerball Numbers 2016

Last updated: Jul 27, 2026, 8:15 PM ET

This page holds the Powerball numbers for every 2016 drawing — 105 drawings, from Saturday, January 2, 2016 through Saturday, December 31, 2016, newest first. Each row carries the five white balls, the red Powerball, and the Power Play multiplier where the source publishes one, and each date links to that drawing's own page with prize tiers and a full breakdown. If you are holding a ticket dated 2016, the Powerball numbers you need are one row away.

What the Powerball Numbers 2016 Page Is For

Almost nobody reads a year of Powerball numbers for fun. The real use case is a specific old ticket: one found in a coat pocket, a glovebox, a drawer of receipts, or an office-pool envelope, printed with a 2016 draw date and never checked against the Powerball numbers from its drawing night. Claim periods are set by the state that sold the ticket and run from 90 days to a full year after the drawing date, so depending on when in 2016 the drawing fell — and which state you bought in — a ticket from this year may still be live, may be days from expiring, or may already be past its deadline. The first step in every one of those cases is the same: find the drawing date printed on the ticket and read the Powerball numbers for that exact night.

That is what this page is built to make fast. Rather than paging through the full archive or guessing at a URL, every set of 2016 Powerball numbers sits in one table you can scan or search with your browser's find-on-page. The second step — confirming what the match is worth and whether the claim window is open — belongs to the drawing's own page and to your state lottery, in that order.

How to Read the 2016 Drawing Table

The table lists the 2016 Powerball numbers newest first, so January sits at the bottom. The five numbers in the middle column are the white balls; they match a ticket in any order. The bold number is the red Powerball, drawn from its own pool, and it must match your ticket's red number exactly — a white ball that happens to equal it does not count. The last column is the Power Play multiplier for that night, which only affects tickets that paid the extra dollar for the add-on. A dash in that column means the source feed does not publish a multiplier for that drawing, not that the multiplier was zero.

Match the printed draw date first, before you look at a single number. Tickets bought after a state's evening sales cutoff belong to the next drawing, so the purchase date and the draw date can disagree — the printed draw date is the authority. Once you have the right set of Powerball numbers, click the date to open that drawing's full page, which spells out all nine prize tiers and what each one paid.

The Powerball Numbers for Every 2016 Drawing

The Number Pool Behind the 2016 Powerball Numbers

Every drawing in 2016 used the current Powerball matrix: five white balls drawn from a pool of 1 through 69 and one red Powerball drawn from a separate pool of 1 through 26. That format has been in force for all drawings since October 7, 2015, which means the 2016 Powerball numbers are directly comparable with any other modern year — same pools, same odds, same nine prize tiers decided by how a ticket overlaps the drawn line.

Because 2016 sits entirely inside the modern era, its drawings feed cleanly into frequency statistics. If you want to see how often each ball has appeared under the current rules, the number frequency page counts across every current-matrix drawing, 2016 included. Just keep the standard caveat in view: every drawing is independent, and no pattern in past Powerball numbers changes what the machine does next.

Power Play in the 2016 Table

The Power Play column shows the multiplier drawn alongside the main numbers each night. It only matters if the ticket you are checking paid the extra dollar for Power Play: in that case non-jackpot prizes are multiplied by the figure shown, except Match 5, which becomes a fixed $2 million rather than being multiplied. Power Play never touches the jackpot. If your ticket did not carry the add-on, read the Powerball numbers and ignore the last column entirely.

Checking a Ticket From 2016

You do not have to compare the numbers by eye. The manual ticket checker takes your five white balls, your red Powerball, and the drawing date, and its date field reaches every drawing in this archive — back to 2010, which covers all of 2016. It compares your line against the Powerball numbers for that exact date and reports the prize tier your line hit and what that tier paid, including the Power Play multiplier where the drawing has one, which beats holding nine prize rules in your head while squinting at a faded ticket.

If a 2016 ticket turns out to be a winner, the order of operations matters more than usual, because the clock may be nearly out. Sign the back of the ticket, then contact the lottery of the state that sold it — not the state you live in now, if those differ — and ask two questions: is this ticket still inside its claim window, and how do I validate it. This site tells you what Powerball numbers were drawn in 2016; only the selling state's lottery can validate a ticket, extend nothing, and pay what is owed.

Where 2016 Sits in the Archive

The archive runs continuously from 2010 to the current drawing — one page of Powerball numbers per year, and one page per individual drawing. From here you can step back to the Powerball numbers for 2015 or forward to the Powerball numbers for 2017. For a flat recent-drawings view use the drawing history page, and for tonight's numbers and the live countdown go to the main results hub.

Frequently Asked Questions About the 2016 Powerball Numbers

Related Pages

• Powerball numbers 2015 — the previous year
• Powerball numbers 2017 — the following year
• Powerball results hub — the latest drawing
• Full Powerball drawing history
• Powerball number frequency — current matrix only
• Check a ticket from any drawing since 2010