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Powerball Grows to $28 Million!
Thursday, May 25, 2006 posted 10:37 AM EDT
POWERBALL, May 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The Powerball jackpot continues to grow and grow. Even though the grand prize was not hit
Wednesday evening, 354,064 players across the nation won a total of more than $2.9 million in prizes in America's favorite
Game.
Because no one correctly matched all six numbers the jackpot will grow to an estimated $28 million for Saturday night's drawing.
The cash option for the Saturday, May 27th drawing will be an estimated $12.4 million.
The numbers drawn Wednesday were 2, 3, 12, 47, 51 and the Powerball was 10. The Power Play multiplier was 3.
Two lucky tickets in the states of Iowa (1), and Missouri (1) correctly matched the 5 white numbers and won $200,000.
Nineteen tickets matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Four additional winners of that prize category
also had the Power Play option that multiplied the win 3 times for a total of $30,000!
More than 66,000 winning Powerball players multiplied their prize by 3 Wednesday. They were able to do that by purchasing
the Power Play option for one dollar. With Power Play you multiply any winnings from 2-5 times, except for the jackpot. At
the beginning of each drawing a wheel is spun to select that night's multiplier.
Players should carefully check their tickets after every draw. Even if there are no jackpot winners there are always tens
of thousands of winners at other prize levels.
Players purchased more than $15.2 million in tickets between Sunday and Wednesday night.
The lotteries have sold approximately $2.6 billion in Powerball tickets so far in fiscal year 2006. That translates into
approximately $725 million for worthwhile state projects.
Powerball is now played in 28 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. For more information on Powerball,
visit our website at http://www.powerball.com .
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