Powerball Jackpot Leaps to $173 Million

1 lucky ticket in Missouri matched all 5 white numbers with the Power Play and won $800,000 cash. Eight other winners matched all 5 white numbers for $200,000. These lucky tickets were purchased in Connecticut (1), Indiana (1), Kentucky (1), Louisiana (1), Montana (2), Oregon (1) and Pennsylvania (1). In addition, 920,128 tickets across the nation won a total of $9,519,993 in prizes.

Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday’s drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $173 million!

The cash option for the Wednesday, March 6th drawing will be an estimated $85.7 million.

The numbers drawn Saturday night were 2, 19, 21, 31, 55 and the Powerball was 19. The Power Play multiplier was 4.

Other prizes won Saturday evening included forty-one tickets that matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Thirteen additional tickets that won at this prize level also wisely purchased the Power Play and had the $10,000 winnings multiplied by 4 to $40,000!

A total of 150,500 winning Powerball tickets multiplied their prizes by 4 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.

Players purchased $38,438,002 in Powerball and Power Play tickets between Thursday and Saturday night.

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