Powerball Jackpot Grows
The cash option for the Saturday, December 18 drawing will be an estimated $12.5 million. The numbers drawn were: 1, 6, 11, 38, 53 and the Powerball was 11. The Power Play multiplier was 4. No one correctly matched the 5 white numbers to win $100,000. Fourteen players matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $5,000. More than 48,000 winning Powerball players multiplied their prize by 4 Wednesday. They were able to do that by purchasing the Power Play option for one dollar. With Power Play you can multiply your winnings, 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 more than 13.3 million tickets between Sunday and Wednesday night.
The lotteries sold more than $2.2 billion in Powerball tickets in 2004. That translates into more than $660 million for worthwhile state projects. Powerball is now played in 27 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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