Powerball lottery jackpot reaches $102 million

Sep 7, 2008, 10:07 am (12 comments)

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N.C. player wins $800,000 Power Play prize

The jackpot in "America's Game" is growing.  With no winner of Saturday's $92 million jackpot, the top prize in Wednesday's drawing is now $102 million.

Even though the grand prize was not awarded Saturday evening, 1 lucky ticket in North Carolina purchased with the Power Play option matched all 5 white numbers and won an $800,000 cash prize.

Four tickets additional tickets from the states of Connecticut, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee, purchased without the Power Play option, matched all 5 white balls for a win of $200,000 each.

In all, 587,782 tickets across the nation won a total of $6,220,854 in prizes.

Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $102 million, with a cash option of $52.1 million, for the Wednesday, September 10th drawing.

The numbers drawn Saturday night were 17, 25, 26, 49, 54 and the Powerball was 11. The Power Play multiplier was 4.

Other prizes won Saturday evening included 27 tickets that matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000.  8 additional tickets at this prize level were purchased with the Power Play option that multiplied winnings 4 times to $40,000 cash.

A total of 109,826 winning Powerball tickets multiplied their prizes by 4 Saturday.  Players 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 purchased $24,632,277 in Powerball and Power Play tickets between Thursday and Saturday night.

Powerball drawing results are published within minutes of the drawing Wednesday and Saturday nights at USA Mega (www.usamega.com), as well as on each individual state lottery results page at Lottery Post (www.lotterypost.com/results).

Lottery Post Staff

Comments

gocart1's avatargocart1

Please please please ..let it be me........this wednesday....I swear

 

lolParty

gocart1's avatargocart1

Quote: Originally posted by gocart1 on Sep 7, 2008

Please please please ..let it be me........this wednesday....I swear

 

lolParty

I'll be good

smooth05

102 million i'm trying to bring that back to indianapolis i need to look into the numbers some more i'm starting to see some patterns.

starchild_45's avatarstarchild_45

maybe i have that 800,000 ticket!!! i can't tell until i get my lotto ticket sent to me.

chasingadream's avatarchasingadream

I'm actually shocked. I thought that it would have been won last night.

MAdMOney20

i know, usually when powerball gets high someone hits it...this the first time in months since it broke the 100 million dollar range

Guru101's avatarGuru101

Hasn't been this high a while. I hope I win it.

JackpotWanna's avatarJackpotWanna

Getting Big! Nice size jackpot. 

natalbriss83

its waiting to get to $111 million so i can claim it. thats my lucky number yahhhhoooo!!!

BabyJC's avatarBabyJC

I went up to Mount Washington on Sunday, so I was sure to stop along the way and buy a ticket in Hooksett and Bretton Woods Smiley

angel08's avatarangel08

Blue AngelI pray that it's my blessed day tomorrow! This couldn't be a better time for me to win!! Hyper My daughter wants to be a Disney Channel actress and this certainly would get cover all those costly expenses

for her to go to Hollywood! DanceGood luck everyone!

gonnawinwatchme's avatargonnawinwatchme

Just wanted to pop in and say good luck to everyone tonight.  I bought a ticket on a whim on Wednesday night, not realizing that the jackpot had gotten so high. 

 

Now, of course, I have to continue until someone wins.  Wink 

 

Good luck everyone!

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