Lottery News and Stories
Powerball Jackpot Reaches $150 Million; Two $1 Million Power Play Prizes Won!
Thursday, May 14, 2009 posted 12:13 PM EDT
(Powerball) Even though the grand prize was not hit Wednesday evening, Powerball had some huge winners. Two tickets in Florida
(1), and Tennessee (1) matched all 5 white ball numbers with the Power Play for an incredible $1 million cash win! This is
part of the new game feature that guarantees a 5X multiplier on all match 5 white ball winners that also have the Power Play
option pushing the prize to $1 million cash. Five other lucky tickets sold in Arizona (1), Florida (1), Indiana (1), Minnesota
(1), and Tennessee (1) each won $200,000 cash by matching all 5 white ball numbers!
The jackpot for the Saturday, January 17th drawing will be $150 million with the cash option at $76.3 million.
The numbers drawn Wednesday evening were 19, 30, 32, 37, 40, and the Powerball was 37. The Power Play multiplier was 3.
A whopping 33 tickets matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Ten additional tickets of that prize level
had the Power Play and had the prize multiplied by 3 for a $30,000 cash win! A total of 736,842 tickets across the nation
won more than $7.9 million in prizes playing America’s favorite game.
A total of 132,768 winning Powerball tickets multiplied their prize by 3 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 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 $32,522,072 in Powerball and Power Play tickets between Sunday and Wednesday night.
The lotteries sold $2.56 billion in Powerball tickets in fiscal year 2008. That translates into over $743 million for worthwhile
state projects.
Powerball is now played in 30 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
|
