Powerball Jackpot Moves to $20 Million

Powerball has reached an estimated $20 million jackpot for Wednesday night’s draw as the grand prize was not hit Saturday evening. In addition, one ticket from Idaho won $600,000 cash with the Power Play option.

The jackpot for the Wednesday, December 19th drawing will be $20 million with the cash option at $9.8 million.

The numbers drawn Saturday evening were 22, 37, 47, 48, 50, and the Powerball was 17. The Power Play multiplier was 3.

One lucky ticket in South Carolina (1) matched 5 white balls winning $200,000 cash each. Eighteen 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 391,221 players across the nation won more than $3.5 million in prizes playing America’s favorite game.

A total of 81,567 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 $16,858,107 in tickets between Thursday and Saturday night.

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