Powerball Jackpot Reaches $80 Million; $1 Million Power Play Prize Won

Thursday, November 05, 2009 posted 09:52 AM EST

(Powerball) The jackpot in America’s favorite lottery game continues to grow. Even though the grand prize was not awarded Wednesday evening, one lucky ticket in North Carolina (1) matched all 5 white numbers with the Power Play and won $1 million cash. 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! Four other lucky tickets in Colorado (1), Florida (1), North Carolina (1), and Pennsylvania (1) matched all 5 white ball numbers without the multiplier for a sensational $200,000 cash win on each. In addition, 583,029 tickets across the nation won a total of $5,814,431 in prizes.

Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday’s drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $80 million!

The cash option for the Saturday, November 7th drawing will be an estimated $40.7 million.

The numbers drawn Wednesday night were 10, 11, 14, 45, 51 and the Powerball was 17. The Power Play multiplier was 3.

Other prizes won Wednesday evening included 16 tickets that matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Ten additional tickets at this prize level were also wisely purchased with the Power Play option that multiplied winnings 3 times to $30,000 cash!

A total of 127,333 winning Powerball tickets multiplied their prizes by 3 Wednesday. 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 $23,607,660 in Powerball and Power Play tickets between Sunday and Wednesday 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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