POWERBALL JACKPOT CLIMBS TO $36 MILLION

POWERBALL JACKPOT CLIMBS TO $36 MILLION; THREE $600,000 POWER PLAY PRIZES WON!

7/8/2007 Powerball will climb to an estimated $36 million for Wednesday’s drawing as the grand prize was not hit Saturday evening. Even though the jackpot was not hit, three lucky tickets from New Hampshire, Oregon, and South Carolina won $600,000 each with the Power Play option! One other lucky ticket sold in Indiana won $200,000 for matching all 5 white ball numbers.

The jackpot for the Wednesday, July 11th drawing will be $36 million with the cash option at $16.3 million.

The numbers drawn Saturday evening were 15, 21, 27, 41, 47, and the Powerball was 20. The Power Play multiplier was 3.

Twenty-one tickets matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Four additional players of that prize level wisely purchased the Power Play and had their prize multiplied by 3 for a $30,000 cash win! A total of 493,373 players across the nation won more than $5.4 million in prizes playing America’s favorite game.

More than 94,881 winning Powerball players multiplied their prize by 3 Saturday. They were able to do that by purchasing the Power Play option for $1. With Power Play you multiply your Powerball 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 $22.1 million in tickets between Thursday and Saturday night.

The lotteries sold $2.5 billion in Powerball tickets in fiscal year 2007. That translates into over $725 million for worthwhile state projects.

Powerball is now played in 29 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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