Advertisements		Thursday, August 14, 2008 Multi-State Lottery Assocation (MUSL) Press Release PowerBall Powerball Jackpot Reaches $35 Million; Three $800,000 Power Play Prizes Won! Note from NCLottery.com: Due to technical difficulties, we apologize for the late posting of this newsbrief.
		Powerball - Even though the grand prize was not hit Wednesday evening, Powerball had some huge winners. Three tickets in Connecticut (1), North Carolina (1), and Pennsylvania (1) matched all 5 white ball numbers with the Power Play for an incredible $800,000 cash win each! Seven other lucky tickets sold in DC (1), Indiana (1), Minnesota (1), Pennsylvania (1), Rhode Island (1), South Carolina (1), and Wisconsin (1), each won $200,000 cash by matching all 5 white ball numbers! The jackpot for the Saturday, August 16th drawing will be $35 million with the cash option at $16.9 million. The numbers drawn Wednesday evening were 5, 10, 19, 23, 31, and the Powerball was 26. The Power Play multiplier was 4. A whopping 35 tickets matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Ten 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 379,095 tickets across the nation won more than $7.6 million in prizes playing America’s favorite game. A total of 79,201 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 $16,281,896 in Powerball and Power Play tickets between Sunday and Wednesday night. The lotteries sold more than $2.56 billion in Powerball tickets in FY08. That translates into more than $743 million for worthwhile state projects. Powerball is now played in 29 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Click Here to Return to News Scroller Powerball is a registered trademark of the Multi-State Lottery Association Power Play is a trademark of the Multi-State Lottery Association NCLottery.com updates our "List of NCEL Major Prize Winners" database as often as new winner information is made available. Please visit this list by clicking here! Visit The NCLottery.com News Briefs Archieve List by clicking here! NCLottery.com is Not Affiliated with the Multi-State Lottery Assocation.

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