Nobody won the Powerball drawing on December 27th so the winnings have been rolled over to this Saturday! The grand prize is at $25 million dollars at the moment, after taxes you can come away with $12.5 million which isn’t something to shake a stick at!
One lucky man from Tennessee came away with the $1 million dollar prize after matching all numbers including the new power play multiplier. All it costs is a dollar to join the power play and your winnings are multipled by two to five times if your numbers are drawn! The only prize this does not apply on is the jackpot as they want there to be a little bit left for other people to win. In all the last drawing paid out a total of $4.5 million dollars with just under 500,000 winning tickets sold.
The powerball lottery sold more then 2.5 BILLION dollars in tickets in 2009 and 2010 is shaping up to be a big year with the prizes getting even bigger!