News reaches Lotto Central HQ this morning from our blog readers across the pond that last night’s Powerball Jackpot of $731.1 million ( $546.8 million in cash ) was won as one lucky ticket holder from Maryland matched the five main balls and the Powerball in the Powerball Draw to scoop the Powerball jackpot !!
In the draw last night , Wednesday 20th January 2021 one ticket holder matched the main ball numbers of 40-53-60-68-69 and the Powerball of 22 and thus the annuitised $731.1 million jackpot was won.
The Powerball Lottery jackpot will therefore start off again at an estimated $20 million ( $15 million in cash) in the next Powerball Lottery Draw which will be drawn on Saturday 23rd January 2021.
There was one first prize winner in Wednesday night’s Powerball Draw but also thirteen lucky ticket holders , two from California , two from Georgia , two from Illinois , one from Maine , one from Maryland , one from Michigan , three from New Jersey and one from Oregon did win a second prize by matching the five main white balls in the Powerball Draw .
The second prize ticket holders from California took home $599,639 each in prize money , the second prize ticket holders from Georgia , Illinois , Maine ,Michigan,New Jersey and Oregon took home $1 million each in prize money with the second prize ticket holder from Maryland taking home $2 million in prize money as they had selected the Powerplay option on their Powerball entry ticket.( Powerplay multiplier is always a maximum of 2 at this level of prize payout)
The Powerplay multiplier in Wednesday night’s Powerball Draw was THREE.
There were 4,416,068 prize winners in Wednesday night’s Powerball Draw with $48,230,169 being paid out in prize money.
Previous experience proves that the Powerball jackpot soon grows substantially after a couple of rollovers so keep an eye on the LottoCentral blog to keep track of the ever growing jackpot !
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We wish all our blog readers a great week in their Lottery playing endeavours !
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