Powerball lottery jackpot increased to $180 million

Aug 4, 2011, 7:26 am (47 comments)

Powerball

By Todd Northrop

The multi-state Powerball lottery drawing took place last night without any jackpot winners, causing the new jackpot for Saturday's drawing to grow to an estimated $180 million, with a cash option of $100.3 million.

Wednesday night was the 10th consecutive drawing without a jackpot winner.

Even though there were no jackpot winners, 13 lucky tickets matched the first five numbers for a $200,000 second-place prize: 1 from Arkansas, 2 from Connecticut, 1 from Florida, 1 from Illinois, 1 from Kansas, 1 from Massachusetts, 1 from Minnesota, 1 from New York, 1 from North Carolina, and 3 from Ohio.

The ticket sold in Arkansas was purchased with the Power Play option, multiplying the prize to a sizeable $1 million. It was sold in Tuckerman (in Jackson County) at EZ Mart 429.

54 tickets matched four white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Of those tickets, 15 also were purchased with the Power Play option, multiplying the prize by 2 for a total cash prize of $20,000.

The Powerball winning numbers for Wednesday, August 3, were 13, 19, 21, 28, and 49, with Powerall number 11. The Power Play number was 2.

The last Powerball jackpot to reach or exceed the size of the upcoming Saturday drawing was on June 1, 2011, when one ticket from New York won a $200 million grand prize.

A total of 1,290,407 tickets across the USA won more than $10.5 million in prizes playing "America's Game" Wednesday. 182,411 of those winning tickets were purchased with the Power Play option, which multiplied the prize by 2.

When a Powerball ticket is purchased with the Power Play option for an extra $1 per ticket, any non-jackpot prize is multiplied from 2-5 times, depending on a computerized random number generated that evening. Second-place Power Play-enabled tickets matching five numbers but not the Powerball are always multiplied by 5 times, for a $1 million prize.

Powerball is now played in 41 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Drawings are Wednesdays and Saturdays at 11:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

The Powerball winning numbers are published at USA Mega (www.usamega.com) minutes after the drawing takes place.

Lottery Post Staff

Comments

dpoly1's avatardpoly1

Woo Hoo ............... !

Ima gonna win the big one .............

I Hope 1 person wins

Sun Smiley

Grovel's avatarGrovel

I wish I was that 1 million dollar winner in arkansas. I would hae been happy with that.

dallascowboyfan's avatardallascowboyfan

$180 Million sounds good to me........

Fondant

Quote: Originally posted by dallascowboyfan on Aug 4, 2011

$180 Million sounds good to me........

AGREED!

joshuacloak's avatarjoshuacloak

its about time its growing

100 million cash, that's the level i start buying 2 tickets

now here hoping it makes it to 150 million cash or 300m  level persay for pb

and then i can really buy some tickets

 

thro i won't enjoy paying 2 bucks  per ticket come 2012, but they say it make pb have more of these high jackpots more often....

hearsetrax's avatarhearsetrax

Quote: Originally posted by dallascowboyfan on Aug 4, 2011

$180 Million sounds good to me........

Skeptical sounds good to me too ...... but breaking the $200 Million mark sounds even better Lep

freeobama's avatarfreeobama

I would not mind the cash option of  71.4 million deposited into my account after taxes!Dance

diamondpalace's avatardiamondpalace

Let's get em!

sandia's avatarsandia

Quote: Originally posted by diamondpalace on Aug 4, 2011

Let's get em!

 Diamondpalace, I agree let's. That is, if Powerball jackpot favors TEXAS!Thumbs Up

Piaceri

Quote: Originally posted by sandia on Aug 4, 2011

 Diamondpalace, I agree let's. That is, if Powerball jackpot favors TEXAS!Thumbs Up

Hell Yeah!   White Bounce

rdgrnr's avatarrdgrnr

Quote: Originally posted by Piaceri on Aug 4, 2011

Hell Yeah!   White Bounce

Hey, what about Tennessee?

 

T for Texas

T for Tennessee

T for Thelma

The gal that made a wreck outta me.

diamondpalace's avatardiamondpalace

Quote: Originally posted by sandia on Aug 4, 2011

 Diamondpalace, I agree let's. That is, if Powerball jackpot favors TEXAS!Thumbs Up

I have a feeling there will be more than one jackpot winners, whenever the winning numbers arrive for players. To me, which is good.

redhot7's avatarredhot7

Too bad we don't have Power Ball in my state.

thePharaoh's avatarthePharaoh

$180 million!  yes i gonna play!

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