Lottery News and Stories
Powerball Jackpot Jumps to $43 Million
Sunday, March 21, 2010 posted 02:27 PM EDT
(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, three lucky tickets from Illinois (1), North
Carolina (1), and Rhode Island (1) matched all 5 white balls and won $200,000 cash each. In addition, 702,096 tickets across
the nation won a total of $4,551,096 in prizes.
Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday’s drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $43 million!
The cash option for the Wednesday, March 24th drawing will be an estimated $21.3 million.
The numbers drawn Saturday night were 9, 36, 39, 44, 45 and the Powerball was 9. The Power Play multiplier was 2.
Other prizes won Saturday evening included 19 tickets that matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Nine
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 135,476 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 $28,398,170 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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