POWERBALL, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Wednesday's Powerball jackpot will be
the largest in its history! The estimated $340 million jackpot breaks the
game's previous record of $314.9 million won on December 25th, 2002.
Even though the grand prize was not hit Saturday evening, 2,575,121
players across the nation won a total of more than $19.9 million in prizes.
The cash option for the Wednesday, October 19th drawing will be an
estimated $164.4 million. The numbers drawn Saturday night were 1, 7, 8, 34,
45 and the Powerball was 15. The Power Play multiplier was 3.
Twenty-one players in the states of Colorado, Connecticut, Iowa, Indiana,
Kansas (3), Kentucky, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska (2), New Mexico,
Oregon, Pennsylvania (3), South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Vermont
matched all 5 white balls and won $200,000.
One Hundred Nineteen players matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball
and won $10,000. Thirteen additional players who won at this prize level also
purchased the Power Play and had their $10,000 winnings multiplied by 3 to
$30,000!
More than 257,000 winning Powerball players multiplied their prizes by 3
Saturday. They 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 more than $103.1 million in tickets between Thursday and
Saturday night. The lotteries sold more than $2 billion in Powerball tickets
in FY05. That translates into more than $600 million for worthwhile state
projects.
Powerball is now played in 27 states, the District of Columbia, and the
U.S. Virgin Islands. For more information on Powerball, please visit our
website at http://www.powerball.com
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