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Powerball Jackpot Climbs to $80 Million; $800,000 Power Play Prize Won!
Thursday, April 10, 2008 posted 01:46 PM EDT
POWERBALL--(Marketwire - April 10, 2008) - Even though the grand prize was not hit Wednesday evening, Powerball had some
big winners. A ticket in Missouri matched all 5 white ball numbers with the Power Play for an incredible $800,000 cash win!
Five other lucky tickets sold in DC (2), Indiana (1), Minnesota (1), and Oklahoma (1) won $200,000 each by matching all 5
white ball numbers!
The jackpot for the Saturday, April 12th drawing will be $80 million with the cash option at $40.8 million.
The numbers drawn Wednesday evening were 3, 13, 19, 32, 46, and the Powerball was 18. The Power Play multiplier was 4.
A whopping 31 tickets matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Six additional tickets of that prize level
had the Power Play and had the prize multiplied by 4 for a $40,000 cash win! A total of 509,668 tickets across the nation
won more than $6.2 million in prizes playing America's favorite game.
A total of 111,287 winning Powerball tickets multiplied their prize by 4 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. For a limited time during the current
"Power Play 10X" promotion, all prizes (except the jackpot) can be multiplied up to 10 times for the same $1 Power Play cost.
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 $21,884,661 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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