Powerball Nears Quarter-Billion Dollar Jackpot

Sunday, August 19, 2007 posted 11:49 AM EDT

There are 31 million more reasons to buy a ticket for the upcoming Powerball lottery drawing.

None of the tickets sold for the Powerball game Saturday night matched all six numbers drawn, which were: 12-15-28-31-50 Powerball: 12 Power Play: 5.

Players matching all five numbers and the Powerball would have won or shared the $214 million jackpot. The prize goes to an estimated $245 million for Wednesday.

Tickets that match the first five numbers, but miss the Powerball, win $200,000 each, and there were six of those. They were sold in: Connecticut, Indiana, Louisiana, New Mexico and Pennsylvania (2).

There were three Power Play Match 5 winners in the states of: North Carolina and South Carolina 2.

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