Lottery News and Stories
Powerball Jackpot Leaps to $52 Million; $600,000 Power Play Prize Won!
Sunday, February 03, 2008 posted 11:17 AM EST
POWERBALL -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 02/03/08 -- 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 South Carolina matched all 5 white numbers
with the Power Play and won a whopping $600,000 cash! An amazing 3 other winners matched all 5 white numbers for $200,000.
These lucky tickets were purchased in Kentucky (1), Oklahoma (1), and Pennsylvania (1). In addition, 437,898 tickets across
the nation won a total of $4,198,291 in prizes.
Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $52 million!
The cash option for the Wednesday, February 6th drawing will be an estimated $25.9 million.
The numbers drawn Saturday night were 14, 16, 25, 26, 44 and the Powerball was 30. The Power Play multiplier was 3.
Other prizes won Saturday evening included sixteen tickets that matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000.
Two 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 84,469 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 $19,822,185 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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