Indiana's Powerball Jackpot rolls over to $120 Million for Weds

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<p>Powerball Jackpot Leaps to $120 Million; $600,000 Power Play Prize Won!
11/18/2007</p>
<p>(Powerball) The jackpot in America's favorite lottery game continues to
get bigger and bigger. Even though the grand prize was not awarded Saturday
evening, 1 lucky ticket in Pennsylvania matched all 5 white numbers with the
Power Play and won a whopping $600,000 cash! Three other winners matched
all 5 white numbers for $200,000. These lucky tickets were purchased in
Arizona (1), Indiana (1), and South Carolina (1). In addition, 678,217
tickets across the nation won a total of $5,743,022 in prizes.
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<p>Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing
the jackpot will grow to an estimated $120 million!
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<p>The cash option for the Wednesday, November 21st drawing will be an
estimated $59.2 million.
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<p>The numbers drawn Saturday night were <b>17, 27, 49, 52, 53 and the
Powerball was 23</b>. The Power Play multiplier was 3.
Other prizes won Saturday evening included forty-two tickets that matched 4
white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Five additional tickets
that won at this prize level also wisely purchased the Power Play and had
the $10,000 winnings multiplied by 3 to $30,000!
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<p>A total of 113,442 winning Powerball tickets multiplied their prizes by 3
Saturday. Players were able to do that by purchasing the Power Play option
for one dollar. With Power Play you multiply your Powerball winnings from 2
to 5 times, except for the jackpot. At the beginning of each drawing a wheel
is spun to select that night's multiplier.
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<p>
Players purchased $28,761,174 in Powerball and Power Play tickets between
Thursday and Saturday night.
The lotteries sold more than $2.5 billion in Powerball tickets in FY07. That
translates into more than $725 million for worthwhile state projects.
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