POWERBALL -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 05/11/08 -- The jackpot in America's favorite lottery gamecontinues to get bigger and bigger. Even though the grand prize was notawarded Saturday evening, 2 lucky tickets in Oklahoma (1) and SouthCarolina (1) matched all 5 white numbers with the Power Play and won$400,000 cash! An amazing 7 other winners matched all 5 white numbers for$200,000. These lucky tickets were purchased in Idaho (1), Kentucky (2),Louisiana (1), North Dakota (1), Oklahoma (1), and South Carolina (1). Inaddition, 440,883 tickets across the nation won a total of $5,041,584 inprizes.Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing thejackpot will grow to an estimated $26 million!
The cash option for the Wednesday, May 14th drawing will be an estimated$12.7 million.
The numbers drawn Saturday night were 7, 18, 30, 41, 45 and the Powerballwas 6. The Power Play multiplier was 2.
Other prizes won Saturday evening included twenty-three tickets thatmatched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Ten additionaltickets that won at this prize level also wisely purchased the Power Playand had the $10,000 winnings multiplied by 2 to $20,000!
A total of 94,051 winning Powerball tickets multiplied their prizes by 2Saturday. Players were able to do that by purchasing the Power Play optionfor one dollar. With Power Play you multiply your Powerball winnings from 2to 5 times, except for the jackpot. At the beginning of each drawing awheel is spun to select that night's multiplier.
Players should carefully check their tickets after every draw. Even ifthere are no jackpot winners there are always tens of thousands of winnersat other prize levels.
Players purchased $19,108,494 in Powerball and Power Play tickets betweenThursday and Saturday night.
The lotteries sold more than $2.5 billion in Powerball tickets in FY07.That translates into more than $725 million for worthwhile state projects.
Powerball is now played in 29 states, the District of Columbia, and theU.S. Virgin Islands.
For more information on Powerball, please visit our website atwww.powerball.com
Contact:
Doug Orr
515.453.1404
Multi-State Lottery Association
