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Powerball Jackpot Climbs to $66 Million; $1 Million Power Play Prize Won
Monday, November 02, 2009 posted 09:56 AM EST
(Powerball) The jackpot in America’s favorite lottery game continues to climb higher and higher. Even though the grand
prize was not awarded Saturday evening, one lucky ticket in Colorado matched all 5 white numbers with the Power Play and
won $1 million. 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 Kansas (1), Missouri (1), North
Carolina (1), and Tennessee (1) matched all 5 white ball numbers without the multiplier for a sensational $200,000 cash win
on each. In addition, 576,879 tickets across the nation won a total of $6,933,578 in prizes.
Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday’s drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $66 million!
The cash option for the Wednesday, November 4th drawing will be an estimated $33.6 million.
The numbers drawn Saturday night were 2, 19, 26, 41, 54 and the Powerball was 23. The Power Play multiplier was 5.
Other prizes won Saturday evening included 16 tickets that matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Nine
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 120,525 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 $23,489,880 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 31 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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