For all the Powerball fans, Wednesday 26th might be the day that will change the rest of your life, the jackpot has reached the sum of $173 Million !
Last Saturday night´s drawings there were no jackpot winners, this makes the new jackpot for tomorrow´s drawing to grow to an estimated $173 million, with a cash option of $105 million. Powerball lottery
Saturday night was the 11th consecutive drawing without a jackpot winner.
Even though there were no jackpot winners, 9 lucky tickets matched the first five numbers for a $200,000 second-place prize: 1 from Florida, 1 from Kentucky, 1 from New Hampshire, 2 from New York, 1 from North Carolina, 1 from Rhode Island, and 2 from Texas. National lottery
None of the second prize tickets was purchase with the Power Play option.
73 tickets matched four white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Of those tickets, 11 also were purchased with the Power Play option, multiplying the prize by 4 for a total cash prize of $40,000.
The Powerball winning numbers for Saturday, October 22, were 3, 8, 23, 30, and 58, with Powerball number 13. The Power Play number was 4.
The last Powerball jackpot to reach or exceed the size of today´s jackpot drawing was on August 10, 2011, when one ticket from Minnesota won a $228.9 million grand prize.
A total of 1,257,330 tickets across the USA won more than $10.6 million in prizes playing “America’s Game” Saturday. 181,190 of those winning tickets were purchased with the Power Play option, which multiplied the prize by 4.
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 currently 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.
So you will have all day today and tomorrow to conjure up your lucky numbers and aim high to strike big, as it is with this hefty jackpot.
