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Powerball Jackpot Jumps to $40 Million; $1 Million Power Play Prize Won
Sunday, February 14, 2010 posted 02:57 PM EST
(Powerball) The jackpot in America’s favorite lottery game continues to get bigger and bigger exciting players across
the country. Even though the grand prize was not awarded Saturday evening, a lucky ticket in Wisconsin (1) matched all 5
white numbers with the Power Play and won $1 million cash. This was a result of the 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! Four tickets from Arizona
(1), Florida (1), Massachusetts (1), and Tennessee (1) matched 5 white balls and won $200,000 cash each. In addition, 630,711
tickets across the nation won a total of $6,665,011 in prizes.
Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday’s drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $40 million!
The cash option for the Wednesday, February 17th drawing will be an estimated $19.6 million.
The numbers drawn Saturday night were 10, 14, 30, 40, 51 and the Powerball was 1. The Power Play multiplier was 4.
Other prizes won Saturday evening included 20 tickets that matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Seven
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 121,744 winning Powerball tickets multiplied their prizes by 4 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 $28,417,069 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.
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