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Powerball Jackpot Rockets to $170 Million; Two $1 Million Power Play Prizes Won
Monday, September 28, 2009 posted 12:44 AM EDT
(Powerball) The jackpot in America’s favorite lottery game continues to soar. Even though the grand prize was not awarded
Saturday evening, two lucky tickets in Colorado (1), and Oklahoma (1) matched all 5 white numbers with the Power Play and
won $1 million cash each. 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!! An amazing 13 other lucky tickets in Arizona (1),
Connecticut (1), Delaware (1), Indiana (1), Kansas (1), Louisiana (1), Minnesota (1), Oklahoma (1), Rhode Island (1), Pennsylvania
(2), and Tennessee (2) matched all 5 white ball numbers without the multiplier for a sensational $200,000 cash win on each.
In addition, 915,393 tickets across the nation won a total of $10,501,549 in prizes.
Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday’s drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $170 million!
The cash option for the Wednesday, September 30th drawing will be an estimated $87.8 million.
The numbers drawn Saturday night were 18, 20, 34, 36, 39 and the Powerball was 19. The Power Play multiplier was 3.
Other prizes won Saturday evening included 45 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 3 times
to $30,000 cash!
A total of 164,205 winning Powerball tickets multiplied their prizes by 3 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 $37,195,672 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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