Lottery News and Stories
Powerball Jackpot Goes to $43 Million; $400,000 Power Play Prize Won!
Saturday, February 02, 2008 posted 01:50 PM EST
POWERBALL--(Marketwire - January 31, 2008) - Even though the grand prize was not hit Wednesday evening, Powerball generated
some huge winners. One ticket in Colorado (1) matched all 5 white ball numbers with the Power Play for an incredible $400,000
cash win! Two other lucky tickets sold in Indiana (1), and Missouri (1) won $200,000 each by matching all 5 white ball numbers!
The jackpot for the Saturday, February 2nd drawing will be $43 million with the cash option at $21.6 million.
The numbers drawn Wednesday evening were 2, 17, 41, 54, 55, and the Powerball was 17. The Power Play multiplier was 2.
Twenty-nine tickets matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Three additional tickets of that prize level
had the Power Play and had the prize multiplied by 2 for a $20,000 cash win! A total of 385,562 tickets across the nation
won more than $3.1 million in prizes playing America's favorite game.
A total of 78,865 winning Powerball tickets multiplied their prize by 2 Wednesday. Players were able to do that by purchasing
the Power Play option for $1. With Power Play you multiply your Powerball 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 $16,661,968 in Powerball and Power Play tickets between Sunday and Wednesday night.
The lotteries sold $2.5 billion in Powerball tickets in fiscal year 2007. That translates into over $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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