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Powerball Jackpot Reaches $106 Million; Two $1 Million Power Play Prizes Won

12/19/2009

(Powerball)  The jackpot in America’s favorite lottery game continues to grow.  Even though the grand prize was not awarded Saturday evening, two lucky tickets in Colorado (1) and Indiana (1) matched all 5 white numbers with the Power Play and won $1 million cash each. 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!  

Three additional tickets in Oregon (1), Pennsylvania (1), and Vermont matched all 5 white numbers without the Power Play and won $200,000 each.  In addition, 664,611 tickets across the nation won a total of $6,975,775 in prizes.

Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday’s drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $106 million!

The cash option for the Wednesday, December 23rd drawing will be an estimated $53.1 million.

The numbers drawn Saturday night were 17, 24, 39, 41, 47 and the Powerball was 21. The Power Play multiplier was 3.

Other prizes won Saturday evening included 25 tickets that matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Five 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 135,884 winning Powerball tickets multiplied their prizes by 3 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 $26,880,338 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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