No jackpot winner drawing Saturday night the multi-state Powerball game, making the jackpot to increase to an estimated $ 200 million for Wednesday’s drawing.
Saturday was the tenth consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner.
The estimated cash value for the new boat is $ 105.2 million. amounts of cash after tax and premium income is reported state by state in USA Mega, a website dedicated to games Powerball and Mega Millions multi-state lottery.
Although there were no jackpot winners, five lucky tickets matched all five numbers in a first prize of $ 200,000 in second place, one from Florida, 2 in Maryland, one of North Carolina and one in Texas. None of the tickets were purchased second with the Power Play option – if they were, the tickets would be worth $ 1 million.
48 tickets matched four white numbers plus the Powerball and won $ 10,000. From these inputs, 2 also purchased the Power Play option, multiplying by 4 the prize with a total cash prize of $ 40,000.
The Powerball winning numbers for Saturday, May 28 were 12, 20, 43, 51 and 55, with Powerball number 11. The Power Play number was 4.
Wednesday’s drawing will be the second time in the last year as players compete for a jackpot of $ 200 million. On April 6, 2011, a ticket sold in Indiana snagged a Powerball jackpot $ 218 million. But one has to look all the way to June 2, 2010 to find the final pot of more than $ 200 million. In this drawing, one ticket sold in Ohio won a Powerball jackpot 261.6 million U.S. dollars – the winner claimed the prize anonymously.
When a Powerball ticket purchased with the Power Play option for an extra $ 1 per ticket, any non-jackpot prize is multiplied 2-5 times depending on a computerized random number generated at night. Second Power Play-enabled tickets matching five numbers but not the Powerball always multiplied by 5 times, with a prize of $ 1 million.
Powerball is now played in 42 states plus the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands. The drawings are Wednesdays and Saturdays at 11:00 pm ET. And now you can play from anywhere in the world thanks to TheLotter.
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