11/08/2006 POWERBALL MOVES TO $27 MILLION!
11/8/06 (Powerball lottery) The Powerball jackpot continues to move upward. Even though the grand prize was not hit Wednesday evening, 401,027 players across the nation won a total of more than $3.9 million in prizes in America’s favorite Game.
Because no one correctly matched all six numbers the jackpot will grow to an estimated $27 million for Saturday night’s drawing.
The cash option for the Saturday, November 11th drawing will be an estimated $12.9 million.
The winning Powerball lotto numbers drawn 11/08/06 Wednesday were 8, 11, 12, 26, 53 and the Powerball was 4. The Power Play multiplier was 4.
Two lucky tickets in Missouri (1), and New Hampshire (1) correctly matched the 5 white numbers and won $200,000.
Twenty-five tickets matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Four additional winners of that prize category also had the Power Play option that multiplied the win 4 times for a total of $40,000!
A total of 85,334 winning Powerball players multiplied their prize by 4 Wednesday. They were able to do that by purchasing the Power Play option for one dollar. With Power Play you multiply any 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 purchased more than $16.6 million in tickets between Sunday and Wednesday night.
The lotteries sold over $2.8 billion in Powerball tickets in fiscal year 2006. That translates into approximately $800 million for worthwhile state projects.see more at www.needto.net/index.html
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