Lottery News and Stories
Powerball Jackpot Builds to $170 Million; $1 Million Power Play Prize Won
Sunday, March 07, 2010 posted 01:34 PM EST
(Powerball) The jackpot in America’s favorite lottery game continues to build. Even though the grand prize was not awarded
Saturday evening, a lucky ticket in Idaho (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! Nine tickets from Connecticut (1), Florida (2), Illinois (1), Indiana (2), Missouri (1),
Nebraska (1), and New York (1) matched 5 white balls and won $200,000 cash each. In addition, 1,036,563 tickets across the
nation won a total of $8,436,318 in prizes.
Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday’s drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $170 million!
The cash option for the Wednesday, March 10th drawing will be an estimated $81.8 million.
The numbers drawn Saturday night were 10, 29, 33, 41, 59 and the Powerball was 15. The Power Play multiplier was 2.
Other prizes won Saturday evening included 32 tickets that matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Eleven
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 171,276 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 $43,816,143 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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