Lottery News and Stories
Powerball Jackpot Reaches $65 Million; $1 Million Power Play Prize Won
Thursday, January 21, 2010 posted 09:54 AM EST
(Powerball) The jackpot in America’s favorite lottery game continues to grow. Even though the grand prize was not awarded
Wednesday evening, a lucky ticket in Arkansas (1) 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! Six tickets from CT (1), Florida (1), Kentucky (1), Louisiana (1), North Carolina
(1), and West Virginia (1) matched 5 white balls and won $200,000 cash each. In addition, 503,266 tickets across the nation
won a total of $5,952,475 in prizes.
Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday’s drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $65 million!
The cash option for the Saturday, January 23rd drawing will be an estimated $31.2 million.
The numbers drawn Wednesday night were 15, 32, 43, 44, 46 and the Powerball was 19. The Power Play multiplier was 4.
Other prizes won Wednesday evening included 12 tickets that matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Five
additional tickets at this prize level were also wisely purchased with the Power Play option that multiplied winnings 4 times
to $40,000 cash!
A total of 105,653 winning Powerball tickets multiplied their prizes by 4 Wednesday. 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 $20,951,325 in Powerball and Power Play tickets between Sunday and Wednesday 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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