Lottery News and Stories
Powerball Jackpot Leaps to $173 Million; $800,000 Power Play Prize Won!
Sunday, March 02, 2008 posted 10:45 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 Missouri matched all 5 white numbers with the Power Play and won an incredible $800,000
cash! Eight other winners matched all 5 white numbers for $200,000. These lucky tickets were purchased in Connecticut (1),
Indiana (1), Kentucky (1), Louisiana (1), Montana (2), Oregon (1) and Pennsylvania (1). In addition, 920,128 tickets across
the nation won a total of $9,519,993 in prizes.
Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $173 million!
The cash option for the Wednesday, March 6th drawing will be an estimated $85.7 million.
The numbers drawn Saturday night were 2, 19, 21, 31, 55 and the Powerball was 19. The Power Play multiplier was 4.
Other prizes won Saturday evening included forty-one tickets that matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000.
Thirteen additional tickets that won at this prize level also wisely purchased the Power Play and had the $10,000 winnings
multiplied by 4 to $40,000!
A total of 150,500 winning Powerball tickets multiplied their prizes by 4 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 $38,438,002 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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