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.
Woo Hoo ............... !
Ima gonna win the big one .............
I Hope 1 person wins
I wish I was that 1 million dollar winner in arkansas. I would hae been happy with that.
$180 Million sounds good to me........
AGREED!
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....
sounds good to me too ...... but breaking the $200 Million mark sounds even better
I would not mind the cash option of 71.4 million deposited into my account after taxes!
Let's get em!
Diamondpalace, I agree let's. That is, if Powerball jackpot favors TEXAS!
Hell Yeah!
Hey, what about Tennessee?
T for Texas
T for Tennessee
T for Thelma
The gal that made a wreck outta me.
I have a feeling there will be more than one jackpot winners, whenever the winning numbers arrive for players. To me, which is good.
Too bad we don't have Power Ball in my state.
$180 million! yes i gonna play!