Powerball Jackpot Grows to $45 Million

Thursday, November 16, 2006 posted 12:17 PM EST

POWERBALL, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Even though the grand prize was not hit Wednesday evening, Powerball paid off in big ways. Two lucky tickets in Colorado and North Carolina won $600,000 with the Power Play option! In addition, two other lucky tickets won $200,000 for matching 5 white ball numbers in the states of Oregon (1), and Pennsylvania (1).

The jackpot for the Saturday, November 18th drawing will be $45 million with the cash option at $21.5 million.

The numbers drawn Wednesday evening were 11, 28, 30, 34, 43, and the Powerball was 29. The Power Play multiplier was 3.

Fifteen tickets matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Six additional players of that prize level wisely purchased the Power Play and had their prize multiplied by 3 for a $30,000 cash win! A total of 384,442 tickets across the nation won more than $4.3 million in prizes playing America's favorite game.

A total of 75,016 winning Powerball tickets multiplied their prize by 3 Wednesday. Players were able to do that by purchasing the Power Play option for $1. With Power Play you multiply your Powerball winnings from 2-5 times, except for the jackpot. At the beginning of each drawing a wheel is spun to select that night's multiplier.

Players should carefully check their tickets after every draw. Even if there are no jackpot winners there are always tens of thousands of winners at other prize levels.

Players purchased more than $17.5 million in tickets between Sunday and Wednesday night.

The lotteries sold $2.8 billion in Powerball tickets in fiscal year 2006. That translates into over $800 million for worthwhile state projects.

Powerball is now played in 29 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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