Powerball Jackpot Reaches $52 Million!

Thursday, August 21, 2008 posted 01:47 PM EDT

POWERBALL -- 08/21/08 -- Even though the grand prize was not hit Wednesday evening, Powerball generated some big winners. Three lucky tickets sold in Kansas (1), New Mexico (1), and Oregon (1) won $200,000 each by matching all 5 white ball numbers!

The jackpot for the Saturday, August 23rd drawing will be $52 million with the cash option at $25.6 million.

The numbers drawn Wednesday evening were 15, 16, 24, 35, 47, and the Powerball was 26. The Power Play multiplier was 2.

Twenty tickets matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Three additional tickets of that prize level had the Power Play and had the prize multiplied by 2 for a $20,000 cash win! A total of 390,727 tickets across the nation won more than $2.9 million in prizes playing America's favorite game.

A total of 78,336 winning Powerball tickets multiplied their prize by 2 Wednesday. Players were able to do that by purchasing the Power Play option for $1. With Power Play you multiply your Powerball winnings from 2-5 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 $17,625,499 in Powerball and Power Play tickets between Sunday and Wednesday night.

The lotteries sold $2.56 billion in Powerball tickets in fiscal year 2008. That translates into over $743 million for worthwhile state projects.

Powerball is now played in 29 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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