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Powerball Jackpot Jumps to $55 Million
Monday, March 16, 2009 posted 09:49 AM EDT
(Powerball) The jackpot in America’s favorite lottery game continues to grow. Even though the grand prize was not awarded
Saturday evening, 1 lucky ticket in Kentucky (1) matched all 5 white numbers and won $200,000 cash. In addition, 601,601
tickets across the nation won a total of $3,722,379 in prizes.
Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday’s drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $55 million!
The cash option for the Wednesday, March 18th drawing will be an estimated $29.6 million.
The numbers drawn Saturday night were 7-30-33-44-51 and the Powerball was 10. The Power Play multiplier was 2.
Other prizes won Saturday evening included twenty-eight tickets that matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000.
Six additional tickets at this prize level were also wisely purchased with the Power Play option that multiplied winnings
2 times to $20,000 cash!
A total of 129,806 winning Powerball tickets multiplied their prizes by 2 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 $25,029,256 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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