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Nebraska Ticket Wins $365 Million Jackpot

NEBRASKA – (PRESS RELEASE) -- The record breaking $365 Million Powerball jackpot was won on a single ticket sold in Nebraska. The winner will now have to decide between the 29-year, 30-payment annuity, and the cash option worth $177.3 million. The winner will have 60 days after their ticket is validated to make that decision.

The numbers drawn Saturday night were 15 - 17 - 43 - 44 - 48 and the Powerball was 29. The Power Play multiplier was 4.

The Match 5 BONUS feature kicked in for this drawing, allowing an additional $19.6 million in cash to roll down and be split by all Match 5 winners. The special BONUS pool is in addition to the regular Match 5 prizes won on this draw. This gives each of the 42 Match 5 white ball winners an additional $467,142 cash bonus above the normal prize of $200,000 plus any Power Play winnings.

Thirty-nine players in Arizona, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee and Wisconsin won a total of $667,142. Three additional Match 5 winners from Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee also played the PowerPlay option and multiplied their base Match 5 prize by four. These players won a total of $1,267,142 in cash for Saturday's Powerball drawing.

Two hundred sixty players matched 4 white ball numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Nineteen additional players who won at this prize level also purchased the Power Play and had their $10,000 winnings multiplied by four to $40,000.

More than 368,000 winning Powerball players multiplied their prizes by four on Saturday. They did that by purchasing the Power Play option for the extra dollar. With Power Play you multiply your Powerball winnings from two to five times, except for the jackpot. At the beginning of each drawing a wheel is spun to select that night's multiplier.

Excluding the jackpot, 4,309,550 players across the nation won a total of $38.4 million in cash prizes for Saturday's Powerball drawing.

The jackpot for the Wednesday, February 22 drawing will be $15 million with a cash option of $7.3 million.

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 more than $175.3 million in tickets (Powerball plus Power Play) between Wednesday and Saturday night. The lotteries sold more than $2 billion in Powerball tickets in FY05. That translates into more than $600 million for worthwhile state projects.

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