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.

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

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

Here we go ! 

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 ............