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Powerball Builds to $74 Million!
Sunday, February 10, 2008 posted 11:58 AM EST
POWERBALL -- 02/10/08 -- The Powerball jackpot continues to build. Even though the grand prize was not hit Saturday evening,
474,028 players across the nation won a total of more than $4.8 million in prizes in America's favorite Game.
Because no one correctly matched all six numbers the jackpot will grow to an estimated $74 million for Wednesday night's
drawing.
The cash option for the Wednesday, February 13th drawing will be an estimated $36.5 million.
The numbers drawn Saturday were 4, 23, 24, 30, 43 and the Powerball was 28. The Power Play multiplier was 5.
Two lucky tickets in Pennsylvania (1) and South Carolina (1) correctly matched the 5 white numbers and won $200,000.
Twenty-six tickets matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Two additional winners of that prize category
also had the Power Play option that multiplied the win 5 times for a total of $50,000!
A total of 90,564 winning Powerball players multiplied their prize by 5 Saturday. 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 $21,377,834 in Powerball and Power Play tickets between Thursday and Saturday night.
The lotteries sold over $2.5 billion in Powerball tickets in fiscal year 2007. That translates into approximately $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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