Powerball lotto rolls over to $153 million for Saturday

02/28/08 Powerball lotto rolls over to $153 million for Saturday

2 $1 Million Power Play Prizes Won!
Even though the grand prize was not hit Wednesday evening, Powerball had
some big winners. Two tickets in Indiana 1 in North Carolina
matched all 5 white ball numbers with the Power Play for an
incredible $1,000,000 cash win each! Eleven other lucky tickets
sold in Arizona , Connecticut, Iowa, Idaho,
Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania,
and South Carolina won $200,000 each by matching all 5 white ball numbers!

The jackpot for the Saturday, March 1st drawing will be $153 million.
The numbers drawn Wednesday evening were 20, 24, 37, 48, 53, and the
Powerball was 11.The Power Play multiplier was 5.

A whopping 30 lotto tickets matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Twelve additional tickets of that prize level had the Power Play and had the prize multiplied by 5 for a $50,000 cash win! A total of 788,044 tickets across the nation won more than $10.7 million in prizes playing America’s favorite game.
A total of 127,899 winning Powerball lotto 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 purchased $18,230,167 in Powerball and Power Play lotto tickets between Sunday and Wednesday night.