$240 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot increased

Jun 10, 2012, 2:42 pm (75 comments)

Powerball

By Todd Northrop

There was no jackpot winner in the Saturday night drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery game, causing the grand prize to increase to an estimated $240 million for Wednesday's drawing.

Saturday was the 13th consecutive drawing without a jackpot winner.

The estimated cash value for the new jackpot is $159.7 Million.  After-tax cash and annuity prize amounts are reported state-by-state at USA Mega, a web site devoted to the Powerball and Mega Millions multi-state lottery games.

Players should note that jackpot amounts are conservative estimates provided by the lotteries, and are often somewhat higher by the time the drawing occurs.

Even though there were no jackpot winners, 5 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $1,000,000 prize: 1 from Delaware, 1 from Florida, 1 from Georgia, 1 from New York, and 1 from North Carolina.

One of the second-prize tickets — the one from Florida — was purchased with the Power Play option for an extra $1, so their prize was increased to $2 million. 

40 tickets matched four white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000.  Of those tickets, 6 were purchased with the Power Play option, increasing the prize to $40,000.

The Powerball winning numbers for Saturday, June 9, were 18, 22, 45, 56, and 57, with Powerball number 27.

When a Powerball ticket is purchased with the Power Play option for an extra $1 per ticket, any non-jackpot prize is increased according to a fixed prize schedule, which can be found on the Powerball Drawing Detail page at USA Mega, as well as on the Powerball Prize Payouts page at Lottery Post.

Powerball is now played in 42 states, plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Drawings are Wednesdays and Saturdays at 11:00 p.m. Eastern Time.  Tickets cost $2 each.

Powerball lottery results are published within minutes of the drawing at USA Mega.

Lottery Post Staff

Comments

mcginnin56

Pretty much at a quarter billion. I can handle that amount of lettuce. NH is way overdue. I would like to tie this one up, and put a bow on it.  Noel

Just   Lover  when Christmas falls in June!  Banana

hearsetrax's avatarhearsetrax

Skeptical was gonna play last night ...

should be interesting to see if it hits b4 next Saturday

 

Cheers well good luck all

Piaceri

POWERBALL MANIA!!!!!    YEEEEE HAWWWWWWWW!!!!!!

Phew, got that out of my system.  (And no, that was not a Dean Scream)

Good luck everyone! Texas needs their first PB winner. They've been dry too dang long in MM, too.

RJOh's avatarRJOh

Last night surge shows PB jackpot  has to exceed the $200M barrier to get players excited with its $2 per line price.  While I probably will not play 20 lines as I use to when its price was $1 per line, I am considering playing 10 lines this Wednesday while I wait for MM jackpot to reach $50M+.

hearsetrax's avatarhearsetrax

Quote: Originally posted by Piaceri on Jun 10, 2012

POWERBALL MANIA!!!!!    YEEEEE HAWWWWWWWW!!!!!!

Phew, got that out of my system.  (And no, that was not a Dean Scream)

Good luck everyone! Texas needs their first PB winner. They've been dry too dang long in MM, too.

do U need to be hog tied Green laugh

Piaceri

Quote: Originally posted by hearsetrax on Jun 10, 2012

do U need to be hog tied Green laugh

Stop it. I'm enjoying my lazy Sunday afternoon. I should be working, but everytime I go near my work computer, my brain freezes. So I'm enjoying the internet, Sunday freaky-bad movies, and whiling the day away.

ttech10's avatarttech10

Well my $2 let me down again, haven't gotten anything since late March on my current numbers, but I did end up having numbers essentially matching mine a few draws ago. Thinking of doing QPs for a while and see if that helps me.

maximumfun's avatarmaximumfun

240M$ j/p... 60M$ w/ 4 winners?  (let's spread it around!)

maximumfun's avatarmaximumfun

This has been puzzling me... shouldn't the PB have gone up MORE than 35M$ by this roll?

CDanaT's avatarCDanaT

I got the powerball correct !!!! Banana   Got my $4.00 back....No complaints there....Enough of this dilly dallying around, time to win that jackpot !!!

dpoly1's avatardpoly1

Here we go !  Dance

the money keeps getting closer to my house .............

$119,775,000 wire transfer and no pesky State and Local TAX

I WILL mitigate the other 10% Federal Tax ............

Thumbs Up

LottoGuyBC's avatarLottoGuyBC

You can take that to the bank Group Hug

haymaker's avatarhaymaker

Quote: Originally posted by CDanaT on Jun 10, 2012

I got the powerball correct !!!! Banana   Got my $4.00 back....No complaints there....Enough of this dilly dallying around, time to win that jackpot !!!

Did you move ?

thought you were from FL.

Anyway congrats on the win.

haymaker's avatarhaymaker

Quote: Originally posted by dpoly1 on Jun 10, 2012

Here we go !  Dance

the money keeps getting closer to my house .............

$119,775,000 wire transfer and no pesky State and Local TAX

I WILL mitigate the other 10% Federal Tax ............

Thumbs Up

I wonder if you can get a refund on the withheld w/ a larger mitigation ?

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