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Powerball Jackpot Jumps to $137 Million; Two $400,000 Power Play Prizes Won!

This Site:en.yinlu.net Source:en.yinlu.net Writer: Time:2007-11-22
POWERBALL--(MARKET WIRE)--Nov 22, 2007 -- Even though the grand prize was not hit Wednesdayevening, Powerball paid off in big ways. Two lucky ticketsfrom Oklahoma(1), and Pennsylvania (1) each won $400,000 with the PowerPlay option! Inaddition, seven other lucky tickets won $200,000 for matching5 white ballnumbers in the states of Connecticut (1), Idaho (1), Louisiana(1),Minnesota (1), North Dakota (1), New Hampshire (1), andNew Mexico (1).

The jackpot for the Saturday, November 24th drawing willbe $137 millionwith the cash option at $68.1 million.

The numbers drawn Wednesday evening were 3, 11, 13, 20,40, and thePowerball was 20. The Power Play multiplier was 2.

Forty-five tickets matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerballand won$10,000. Thirteen additional players of that prize levelwisely purchasedthe Power Play and had their prize multiplied by 2 for a$20,000 cash win!A total of 705,804 players across the nation won more than$6.7 million inprizes playing America's favorite game.

More than 115,706 winning Powerball players multiplied theirprize by 2Wednesday. They were able to do that by purchasing the PowerPlay optionfor $1. With Power Play you multiply your Powerball winningsfrom 2-5times, except for the jackpot. At the beginning of eachdrawing a wheel isspun to select that night's multiplier.

Players should carefully check their tickets after everydraw. Even ifthere are no jackpot winners there are always tens of thousandsof winnersat other prize levels.

Players purchased $29,744,104 Powerball and Power Play ticketsbetweenSunday and Wednesday night.

The lotteries sold $2.5 billion in Powerball tickets infiscal year 2007.That translates into over $725 million for worthwhile stateprojects.

Powerball is now played in 29 states, the District of Columbia,and theU.S. Virgin Islands.

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