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Powerball Jackpot Moves to $81 Million!
The jackpot in America's favorite lottery game
continues to move. Even though the grand prize was not awarded Saturday
evening, 8 lucky tickets in Arizona (1), Iowa (1), Indiana (1), Kentucky
(1), Maine (1), Oklahoma (1), Pennsylvania (1), and South Dakota (1)
matched all 5 white numbers and won $200,000 cash each! In addition,
471,565 tickets across the nation won a total of $4,899,667 in prizes.
Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the
jackpot will grow to an estimated $81 million!
The cash option for the Wednesday, September 3rd drawing will be an
estimated $40.5 million.
The numbers drawn Saturday night were 2, 14, 15, 32, 47 and the Powerball
was 36. 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. Three additional tickets at
this prize level were also wisely purchased with the Power Play option and
multiplied winnings 3 times to $30,000 cash!
A total of 87,938 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 a
wheel is spun to select 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 $22,052,433 in Powerball and Power Play tickets between
Thursday and Saturday night.
The lotteries sold more than $2.56 billion in Powerball tickets in FY08.
That translates into more than $743 million for worthwhile state projects.
Powerball is now played in 29 states, the District of Columbia, and the
U.S. Virgin Islands.
For more information on Powerball, please visit our website at
www.powerball.com
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