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Powerball Jackpot Jumps to $150 Million; $1 Million Power Play Prize Won
Sunday, February 22, 2009 posted 05:04 PM EST
The jackpot in America’s favorite lottery game is growing to new heights exciting players across the country. Even though
the grand prize was not awarded Saturday evening, 1 lucky ticket in Iowa (1) matched all 5 white numbers with the Power Play
and won $1 MILLION cash. This was a result of the new Power Play feature that turns any match 5 white ball win with the
Power Play into a 5X multiplier and pushes the prize up to $1 million cash! One other lucky ticket in Florida (1), matched
all 5 white ball numbers without the Power Play for a sensational $200,000 cash win. In addition, 887,058 tickets across
the nation won a total of $7,701,646 in prizes.
Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday’s drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $150 million!
The cash option for the Wednesday, February 25th drawing will be an estimated $80.1 million.
The numbers drawn Saturday night were 13-31-41-45-46 and the Powerball was 21. The Power Play multiplier was 4.
Other prizes won Saturday evening included thirty-five tickets that matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000.
Seven additional tickets at this prize level were also wisely purchased with the Power Play option that multiplied winnings
4 times to $40,000 cash!
A total of 166,958 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 an animated spinner presents 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 $36,927,927 in Powerball and Power Play tickets between Thursday and Saturday night.
The lotteries sold more than $2.56 billion in Powerball tickets in FY08. That translates into more than $743 million for
worthwhile state projects.
Powerball is now played in 30 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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