Lottery News and Stories
Powerball Jackpot Reaches $57 Million
Thursday, February 18, 2010 posted 09:34 AM EST
(Powerball) The jackpot in America’s favorite lottery game continues to grow. Even though the grand prize was not awarded
Wednesday evening, three lucky tickets in Illinois (1), North Carolina (1), and Texas (1) matched all 5 white numbers and
won $200,000 cash each.
In addition, 630,286 tickets across the nation won a total of $5,192,074 in prizes.
Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday’s drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $57 million!
The cash option for the Saturday, February 20th drawing will be an estimated $27.9 million.
The numbers drawn Saturday night were 7, 8, 19, 26, 36 and the Powerball was 15. The Power Play multiplier was 3.
Other prizes won Wednesday evening included 30 tickets that matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Ten
additional tickets at this prize level were also wisely purchased with the Power Play option that multiplied their winnings
3 times to $30,000 cash!
A total of 125,449 winning Powerball tickets multiplied their prizes by 3 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 $26,621,148 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 41 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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