POWERBALL -- 11/02/08 --
Even though the grand prize was not hit Saturday
evening, Powerball had some huge winners. One ticket in Tennessee (1)
matched all 5 white ball numbers with the Power Play for an incredible
$800,000 cash win! Four other lucky tickets sold in Kentucky (1),
Louisiana (1), New Mexico (1), and Rhode Island (1), each won $200,000 cash
by matching all 5 white ball numbers!
The jackpot for the Wednesday, November 5th drawing will be $20 million
with the cash option at $10 million.
The numbers drawn Saturday evening were 4, 6, 26, 40, 41, and the Powerball
was 15. The Power Play multiplier was 4.
A whopping 15 tickets matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won
$10,000. Four additional tickets of that prize level had the Power Play and
had the prize multiplied by 4 for a $40,000 cash win! A total of 375,413
tickets across the nation won more than $4.6 million in prizes playing
America's favorite game.
A total of 75,069 winning Powerball tickets multiplied their prize by 4
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 should carefully check their tickets after every draw. Even if
there are no jackpot winners there are always tens of thousands of winners
at other prize levels.
Players purchased $17,078,970 in Powerball and Power Play tickets between
Thursday and Saturday night.
The lotteries sold $2.56 billion in Powerball tickets in fiscal year 2008.
That translates into over $743 million for worthwhile state projects.
Powerball is now played in 29 states, the District of Columbia, and the
U.S. Virgin Islands.
For more information on Powerball, please visit our website at
www.powerball.com
Contact:
Doug Orr
Multi-State Lottery Association
515-453-1404
