02/14/08 POWERBALL JACKPOT REACHES $86 MILLION for Sat.
Powerball has reached an estimated $86 million jackpot for Saturday night’s draw as the grand prize was not hit Wednesday evening. In addition, one ticket from North Carolina won $600,000 cash with the Power Play option!
$600,000 POWER PLAY PRIZE WON!
The jackpot for the Saturday, February 16th drawing will be $86 million with the cash option at $42.5 million.
The numbers drawn Wednesday evening were 13, 19, 32, 38, 51, and the Powerball was 30. The Power Play multiplier was 3.
Four tickets in the states of Connecticut (1), Indiana (1), Louisiana (1), and Minnesota (1) matched all 5 white ball numbers for a $200,000 cash prize each. Eighteen tickets matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Three 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 432,913 players across the nation won more than $4.3 million in prizes playing America’s favorite game.
A total of 79,934 winning Powerball players multiplied their prize by 3 Wednesday. 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 $19,649,328 in Powerball and Power Play tickets between Sunday and Wednesday night.
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