POWERBALL -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 07/13/08 -- The jackpot in America's favorite lottery gamecontinues to get grow. Even though the grand prize was not awardedSaturday evening, 1 lucky ticket in North Carolina matched all 5 whitenumbers with the Power Play and won $400,000 cash! Two other winnersmatched all 5 white numbers for $200,000 in the states of Minnesota (1) andNorth Dakota (1). In addition, 430,296 tickets across the nation won atotal of $3,530,534 in prizes.Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing thejackpot will grow to an estimated $33 million!
The cash option for the Wednesday, July 16th drawing will be an estimated$16.5 million.
The numbers drawn Saturday night were 2, 12, 20, 22, 50 and the Powerballwas 17. The Power Play multiplier was 2.
Other prizes won Saturday evening included eighteen tickets that matched 4white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Six additional tickets atthis prize level were also wisely purchased with the Power Play option andmultiplied winnings 2 times to $20,000 cash!
A total of 92,502 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 $17,960,290 in Powerball and Power Play tickets betweenThursday and Saturday night.
The lotteries sold more than $2.65 billion in Powerball tickets in FY07.That translates into more than $768 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
