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Powerball Jackpot Reaches $161 Million; $1 Million Power Play Prize Won
Thursday, August 06, 2009 posted 12:11 PM EDT
(Powerball) Even though the grand prize was not hit Wednesday evening, Powerball had some huge winners. One ticket in Pennsylvania
(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. Three other lucky tickets sold in Indiana (1), Kentucky (1), and West Virginia (1), each won $200,000
cash by matching all 5 white ball numbers!
The jackpot for the Saturday, August 8th drawing will be $161 million with the cash option at $80 million.
The numbers drawn Wednesday evening were 25, 34, 41, 46, 49, and the Powerball was 29. The Power Play multiplier was 3.
A whopping 30 tickets matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Two 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 778,801 tickets across the nation
won more than $6.3 million in prizes playing America’s favorite game.
A total of 131,841 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 each multiplier number.
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 $33,930,846 in Powerball and Power Play tickets between Sunday and Wednesday night.
The lotteries sold $2.56 billion in Powerball tickets in fiscal year 2009. 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.
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