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Powerball Jackpot Climbs to $245 Million; $1 Million Power Play Prize Won
Sunday, August 16, 2009 posted 12:51 PM EDT
(Powerball) The jackpot in America’s favorite lottery game continues to climb exciting players all across the nation.
Even though the grand prize was not awarded Saturday evening, one lucky ticket sold in Tennessee 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! Four other lucky tickets in
Florida (1), Kentucky (2), and Maine (1) matched all 5 white ball numbers without the multiplier for a sensational $200,000
cash win on each. In addition, 1,455,015 tickets across the nation won a total of $13,000,805 in prizes.
Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday’s drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $245 million!
The cash option for the Wednesday, August 19th drawing will be an estimated $122.6 million.
The numbers drawn Saturday night were 14, 15, 26, 32, 36 and the Powerball was 12. The Power Play multiplier was 5.
Other prizes won Saturday evening included fifty-three tickets that matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000.
Eleven additional tickets at this prize level were also wisely purchased with the Power Play option that multiplied winnings
5 times to $50,000 cash!
A total of 228,815 winning Powerball tickets multiplied their prizes by 5 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 $57,154,203 in Powerball and Power Play tickets between Thursday and Saturday night. The lotteries sold
more than $2.56 billion in Powerball tickets in FY09. 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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