Thursday, July 05, 2007

Powerball lotto rolls over to $27 million for this weekend lottery

POWERBALL JACKPOT MOVES TO $27 MILLION; $1 MILLION POWER PLAY PRIZE WON!


7/5/2007(Powerball) Even though the grand prize was not hit Wednesday evening, Powerball paid off in big ways. One lucky ticket in Louisiana won $1 million with the Power Play option!


The jackpot for the Saturday, July 7th drawing will be $27 million with the cash option at $12.3 million.


The numbers drawn Wednesday evening were 1, 2, 15, 17, 49, and the Powerball was 35. The Power Play multiplier was 5.


Twenty tickets matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. One additional players of that prize level wisely purchased the Power Play and had their prize multiplied by 5 for a $50,000 cash win! A total of 320,057 tickets across the nation won more than $3.8 million in prizes playing America’s favorite game.


A total of 64,169 winning Powerball tickets multiplied their prize by 5 Wednesday. Players 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 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 $14.9 million in tickets between Sunday and Wednesday 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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