Powerball Jackpot Climbs to $75million

29/08/2011 10:50:58

On Saturday 27th August the jackpot for the multi-state Powerball Lottery in America stood at $61 million but once again no winners were able to match the five main numbers drawn and the Powerball. This means that for the next draw on Wednesday 31st August the Powerball jackpot climbs to $75 million. The numbers drawn on Saturday were 2 – 12 – 25 – 54 – 58 with 14 as the Powerball. For those players who opted in for the Power Play option, this was 3x.

Latest Powerball Results for 19 May 2012

In total there were 612,522 winning tickets on Saturday and 117,856 Power Play winners. You can see the complete breakdown below:

Match 5 – 3 winners and 1 Power Play
Match 4 & Powerball – 22 winners and 4 Power Play
Match 4 – 1065 winners – 182 Power Play
Match 3 & Powerball – 1538 winners – 269 Power Play
Match 3 – 57,816 winners – 11,173 Power Play
Match 2 & Powerball – 27,299 winners – 5,075 Power Play
Match 1 & Powerball – 174,506 winners – 33,759 Power Play
Match Powerball – 350,273 winners – 67,393 Power Play

The last big jackpot win for the Powerball Lottery was back on 10th August 2011 when a player from Minnesota managed to match the 5 main balls and the Powerball to scoop an impressive $228.9 million jackpot produced by multiple rollovers.

Although the jackpot for Wednesday 31st August for Powerball is a little way off being quite as impressive there is still $75 million to play for ($44.1 million if you were to take the cash option as a jackpot winner).