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Powerball Jackpot Grows to $250 Million

PRESS RELEASE) -- The jackpot in America's favorite lottery game continues to grow to enormous amounts. In addition, two very lucky players in Pennsylvania and Indiana each won a cool $1 million cash with the Power Play option. Even though the grand prize was not awarded Wednesday evening, 1,324,903 players across the nation won a total of more than $14.4 million in prizes.

Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $250 million!

The cash option for the Saturday, February 11th drawing will be an estimated $120.1 million.

The numbers drawn Wednesday night were 14, 25, 32, 48, 54 and the Powerball was 10. The Power Play multiplier was 5.

Thirteen winning tickets in Iowa (3), Kentucky (1), Missouri (1), New Mexico (1), Oregon (1), Pennsylvania (1), South Carolina (1), Tennessee (2), and Wisconsin (2) matched all 5 white numbers for a $200,000 prize. The two big winners in Pennsylvania and Indiana not only matched all 5 white numbers, but also wisely purchased the Power Play option multiplying the $200,000 prize 5 times for a total win of $1,000,000!

Sixty players matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Thirteen additional players who won at this prize level also wisely purchased the Power Play and had the $10,000 winnings multiplied by 5 to $50,000!

More than 152,000 winning Powerball players multiplied their prizes by 5 Wednesday. They were able to do that by purchasing the Power Play option for one dollar. With Power Play you multiply your Powerball winnings from 2 to 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 aren't any jackpot winners there are always tens of thousands of winners at other prize levels.

Players purchased more than $53.3 million in tickets between Sunday and Wednesday night. The lotteries sold more than $2 billion in Powerball tickets in FY05. That translates into more than $600 million for worthwhile state projects.

Powerball is now played in 28 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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