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Powerball Jackpot to $76 Million; $1 Million Power Play Prize Won
Monday, January 25, 2010 posted 01:57 AM EST
(Powerball) The jackpot in America’s favorite lottery game continues to get bigger and bigger. Even though the grand
prize was not awarded Saturday evening, a lucky ticket in Indiana (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! Two tickets from Kansas (1) and Pennsylvania (1) matched
5 white balls and won $200,000 cash each. In addition, 610,531 tickets across the nation won a total of $4,746,428 in prizes.
Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday’s drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $76 million!
The cash option for the Wednesday, January 27th drawing will be an estimated $37.8 million.
The numbers drawn Saturday night were 15, 16, 20, 42, 53 and the Powerball was 17. The Power Play multiplier was 2.
Other prizes won Saturday evening included 16 tickets that matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Four
additional tickets at this prize level were also wisely purchased with the Power Play option that multiplied winnings 2 times
to $20,000 cash!
A total of 129,462 winning Powerball tickets multiplied their prizes by 2 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 $24,329,107 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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