Powerball Jackpot Goes to $26 Million

Powerball has reached an estimated $26 million jackpot for Wednesday night’s draw as the grand prize was not hit Saturday evening.

The jackpot for the Wednesday, March 26th drawing will be $26 million with the cash option at $13.5 million.

The numbers drawn Saturday evening were 7, 25, 28, 46, 48, and the Powerball was 19. The Power Play multiplier was 3.

Five lucky tickets in Minnesota (1), North Carolina (3), and Oklahoma (1) matched 5 white balls winning $200,000 cash each. Twenty-seven tickets matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Five 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 460,224 players across the nation won more than $4.2 million in prizes playing America’s favorite game.

A total of 91,968 winning Powerball players multiplied their prize by 3 Saturday. They 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 purchased $19,736,639 in tickets between Thursday and Saturday night.

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