Lottery News and Stories
Powerball Jackpot Leaps to $120 Million; $600,000 Power Play Prize Won!
Sunday, November 18, 2007 posted 11:29 AM EST
The jackpot in America's favorite lottery game continues to get bigger and bigger. Even though the grand prize was not awarded
Saturday evening, 1 lucky ticket in Pennsylvania matched all 5 white numbers with the Power Play and won a whopping $600,000
cash! Three other winners matched all 5 white numbers for $200,000. These lucky tickets were purchased in Arizona (1), Indiana
(1), and South Carolina (1). In addition, 678,217 tickets across the nation won a total of $5,743,022 in prizes.
Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $120 million!
The cash option for the Wednesday, November 21st drawing will be an estimated $59.2 million.
The numbers drawn Saturday night were 17, 27, 49, 52, 53 and the Powerball was 23. The Power Play multiplier was 3.
Other prizes won Saturday evening included forty-two tickets that matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000.
Five additional tickets that won at this prize level also wisely purchased the Power Play and had the $10,000 winnings multiplied
by 3 to $30,000!
A total of 113,442 winning Powerball tickets multiplied their prizes by 3 Saturday. Players were able to do that by purchasing
the Power Play option for one dollar. With Power Play you multiply your Powerball winnings from 2 to 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 $28,761,174 in Powerball and Power Play tickets between Thursday and Saturday night.
The lotteries sold more than $2.5 billion in Powerball tickets in FY07. That translates into more than $725 million for worthwhile
state projects.
Powerball is now played in 29 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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