Powerball Jackpot Reaches $155 Million
UNITED STATES – Even though the grand prize was nothit Wednesday evening, Powerball paid off BIG in multiple ways. Two luckytickets won $800,000 each with the Power Play option in North Carolina! Inaddition, five other lucky tickets won $200,000 for matching 5 white ballnumbers in the states of Indiana (1), Minnesota (2), Missouri (1), andOklahoma (1).
The jackpot for the Saturday, July 29th drawing will be $155 millionwith the cash option at $70.7 million.
The numbers drawn Wednesday evening were 5, 10, 17, 24, 43, and thePowerball was 31. The Power Play multiplier was 4.
Forty-six tickets matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won$10,000. Nine additional players of that prize level wisely purchased thePower Play and had their prize multiplied by 4 for a $40,000 cash win! Atotal of 746,524 players across the nation won more than $8.7 million inprizes playing America's favorite game.
More than 122,000 winning Powerball players multiplied their prize by 4Wednesday. They were able to do that by purchasing the Power Play optionfor $1. With Power Play you multiply your Powerball winnings from 2-5times, except for the jackpot. At the beginning of each drawing a wheel isspun to select that night's multiplier.
Players should carefully check their tickets after every draw. Even ifthere are no jackpot winners there are always tens of thousands of winnersat other prize levels.
Players purchased more than $31.2 million in tickets between Sunday andWednesday night.
The lotteries sold $2.8 billion in Powerball tickets in fiscal year2006. That translates into over $800 million for worthwhile state projects.
Powerball is now played in 29 states, the District of Columbia, and theU.S. Virgin Islands.
2006-07-30
