$173 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot increased

Apr 22, 2012, 9:03 am (54 comments)

Powerball

By Todd Northrop

The multi-state Powerball lottery drawing took place last night without any jackpot winners, causing the new jackpot for Wednesday's drawing to grow to an estimated $173 million, with a cash option of $107.7 million.

Saturday night was the 9th consecutive drawing without a jackpot winner.

Even though there were no jackpot winners, 8 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $1,000,000 prize: 1 from Colorado, 2 from Florida, 1 from Idaho, 1 from Indiana, 1 from Louisiana, 1 from Minnesota, and 1 from Pennsylvania.

None of the second prize tickets was purchased with the Power Play option.

40 tickets matched four white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Of those tickets, 4 also were purchased with the Power Play option, increasing the prize to $40,000.

The Powerball winning numbers for Saturday, April 22, were 6, 8, 20, 42, and 51, with Powerball number 16.

The last Powerball jackpot to reach or exceed the size of the upcoming Wednesday drawing was on February 11, 2011, when Louise White, a "vivacious" 81-year-old from Newport, Rhode Island, won $336.4 million — the third-largest Powerball lottery jackpot in the history of the game.  (See Rhode Island woman, 81, claims $336 Million Powerball jackpot, Lottery Post, March 6, 2012.)

A total of 668,762 tickets across the USA won more than $12.6 million in prizes playing "America's Game" Saturday. 105,636 of those winning tickets were purchased with the Power Play option, which increased their prizes up to 4 times.

When a Powerball ticket is purchased with the Power Play option for an extra $1 per ticket, any non-jackpot prize is increased by a set amount.  For example, second-place Power Play-enabled tickets matching five numbers but not the Powerball are increased from $1 million to $2 million.

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.

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

Lottery Post Staff

Comments

Piaceri

Well it's about time PB.  Roll PB, roll! Dance WOOT!! White Bounce

 

Won a whopping $4 last night, gonna roll it for Wedns + my usual $4. I may even throw in another $2. My palms are a itchin'.  Hyper

LottoGuyBC's avatarLottoGuyBC

$173 MILLION Hurray!

Lucky SOB

powerball has a long way to go

Cletu$2's avatarCletu$2

Climb,baby climb!Climb to at least $200,000,000.

rdgrnr's avatarrdgrnr

I've received a psychic impression that I'm not going to win the jackpot on this run (I'm an Oracle, you know).

Let's see if I'm right.

dpoly1's avatardpoly1

I had the Powerball with powerplay & I will get 4 X my money back when I get back home from IN!
Looking for a very nice wire transfer of $80,775,000 from the next Powerball Drawing!
Woo Hoo!

RJOh's avatarRJOh

Quote: Originally posted by rdgrnr on Apr 22, 2012

I've received a psychic impression that I'm not going to win the jackpot on this run (I'm an Oracle, you know).

Let's see if I'm right.

Odds are you're right!

CDanaT's avatarCDanaT

Good things come in threes right ?  Just got 2 pieces of great news earlier this week, so I am thinking that taking home the $173 million jackpot would be a logical choice for the  third  !!!!!

dallascowboyfan's avatardallascowboyfan

$173 million sounds good to me.....Banana

Halle99's avatarHalle99

Roll PB roll......

I am willing to drive to the border to buy PB tickets once it hits a record. No Pity!

savagegoose's avatarsavagegoose

but $2 a ticket, it needs to get at least to $500M now

hearsetrax's avatarhearsetrax

Quote: Originally posted by savagegoose on Apr 23, 2012

but $2 a ticket, it needs to get at least to $500M now

wake me when it breaks $475 million

 

 

 

 

                               Bed

Jill34786's avatarJill34786

Lump cash is finally over $100 million!  time to donate a few bucks towards building the pot. Hope someone here gets lucky...won't be me but it's still fun to participate once in a while Smiley

Jill34786's avatarJill34786

Quote: Originally posted by Piaceri on Apr 22, 2012

Well it's about time PB.  Roll PB, roll! Dance WOOT!! White Bounce

 

Won a whopping $4 last night, gonna roll it for Wedns + my usual $4. I may even throw in another $2. My palms are a itchin'.  Hyper

Is someone splurging Wink  Good luck to you!

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