Release of Saturday winner information and start of Sunday sales delayed to due systems problems
Powerball winner results were delayed for the drawing on Saturday, May 13, 2006.
"Strict balancing and processing requirements" for the game required all systems to delay the start of ticket cashing for the game on Sunday morning.
Once all systems were confirmed to be in balance, at 6:55 a.m. Eastern, sales and cashing were authorized for all retailers across the country.
The Powerball grand prize was not hit Saturday evening, but 658,097 players across the nation won a total of more than $6.5 million in prizes in "America's Game".
Because no one correctly matched all six numbers the jackpot will grow to an estimated $114 million for Wednesday night's drawing.
The cash option for the Wednesday, May 17th drawing will be an estimated $50.5 million.
The numbers drawn Saturday were 19, 28, 30, 47, 54 and the Powerball was 13. The Power Play multiplier was 3.
Yeah when the drawing results were not released by 1:00 am I knew there was something up. Different excuse used this time compared to the other times they had delays.
Brad
Congratulations to the 2nd prize winners including the one winner with Power Play. I hope it continues to roll. Also, the last jackpot set a roll 8 record.
A lot of second place winners. Congrats to them. I think the jackpot may get up to 200 million before being won this time.
If one state doesn't balance, the systems in every MUSL state go into what is called "lockdown". This can happen even if the host system is fine (i.e. on the vendor side) but the Lottery's ICS system has a hiccup (or vice versa).
The fact that it happens so infrequently stands in pretty good contrast to other government systems IMO.
wow been out the loop for a minny guess I need to get my rear to KY and cash in my winning tickets and get on the ball LOL
and to let ya all know the girls are doing well
Usually if there is a delay it means one or more people won. If no one wins the results are out faster.
Usually if there is a delay it means one or more people won. If no one wins the results are out faster.
You think someone tried to hack in the winning number, throwing everything out of balance?
...."but 658,097 players across the nation won a total of more than $6.5 million in prizes in "America's Game"."
Let's see...that means the average winner in America's Game won a whopping $9.87.
Not impressed.
well, I'm now not expecting to hit a jackpot for a few months. so it doesn't really matter to me either way.
its funny how pb results are within an hour and ten minutes after the drawing .mega millions results take from three to six hours after the drawing.powerball has 30 somethings states and mega millions has , what fourteen.Todd knews the right numbers of states for each game.ok .so when the powerball drawing goes off i,i stay up late..when the mega results come in i wake up early.the only reason i do this is ,to see if i have to go to work anymore..lol
wow the results show on the Ohio Lottery site in lik 15 minutes as well as the power ball results show up in about 15 minutes on powerball.com Try those out so that way you can see if ya won the night off and GET YOUR ASS TO THE LOTTERY OFFICE AT THE CRACK OF DAWN!!!!!!! Lol Well I am going to Ky this weekend to get my tickets to get back in on the PB No luck so far on MM Good Luck everyone
thanks for thr infor.......sassyohio
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