Jackpot Grows to $95 Million

Thursday, February 25, 2010 posted 07:40 PM EST

(Powerball) The jackpot in America’s favorite lottery game continues to grow.

Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday’s drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $95 million!

The cash option for the Saturday, February 27th drawing will be an estimated $46.1 million.

The numbers drawn Wednesday night were 4-17-35-50-57 and the Powerball was 12. The Power Play multiplier was 2.

There were 718,552 tickets across the nation that won a total of $3,936,420 in prizes.

There were no match 5+0 winning tickets this drawing.

Prizes won Wednesday evening included 27 tickets that matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Six additional tickets at this prize level also included the Power Play option that multiplied winnings 2 times to $20,000 cash!

A total of 137,105 winning Powerball tickets multiplied their prizes by 2 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 $29,535,102 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 41 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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