Lottery News and Stories
Powerball Jackpot Reaches $150 Million; $1 Million Power Play Prize Won
Thursday, September 24, 2009 posted 09:36 AM EDT
(Powerball) Even though the grand prize was not hit Wednesday evening, Powerball had some huge winners. One ticket in North
Carolina (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. Eight other lucky tickets sold in Florida (2), Kentucky (2), Nebraska (1), Vermont
(1), Wisconsin (1), and West Virginia (1), each won $200,000 cash by matching all 5 white ball numbers!
The jackpot for the Saturday, September 26th drawing will be $150 million with the cash option at $77.2 million.
The numbers drawn Wednesday evening were 7, 8, 20, 25, 29, and the Powerball was 11. The Power Play multiplier was 5.
A whopping 53 tickets matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Thirteen additional tickets of that prize
level had the Power Play and had the prize multiplied by 5 for a $50,000 cash win! A total of 863,519 tickets across the
nation won more than $10.6 million in prizes playing America’s favorite game.
A total of 160,083 winning Powerball tickets multiplied their prize by 5 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 $32,522,123 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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