$106 Million and Climbing!

Although most of us at the Iowa Lottery consider all Powerball jackpots huge, our players get very interested when the jackpot reaches into the hundreds of millions.

Well, it’s happened again! There was no Powerball jackpot winner in Saturday night’s drawing for the $92 million prize, so the current estimated jackpot is $106 million! And it comes at a great time – right around the holidays.

In case you don’t remember, the record Powerball jackpot was a $365 million prize that was won in the drawing on Feb. 18, 2006, by eight co-workers at a Nebraska meat-packing plant.

Past Iowa Powerball jackpot winners include:
• Tim and Kellie Guderian of Fort Dodge, who claimed a $200.8 million jackpot in October 2006.
• Hugh Hawkins of Des Moines, who claimed a $113.2 million jackpot in December 2005.
•  Jacquelyn Moore of Omaha, Neb., who won a $14.4 million jackpot in October 2004. (She bought her ticket at a convenience store in Carter Lake in western Iowa.)
• The Larry Hasken family of Sabula, who claimed a $31.8 million jackpot in January 2000.
• Tim Schultz of Des Moines, who won a $28 million jackpot in February 1999.
• Ed Brown of Washington, who split a $10.4 million jackpot with a woman from Missouri in December 1992.

You could be next, so get out there and get your tickets! And don’t forget to add the Power Play to your Powerball ticket. It’s just an extra $1, but could multiply your win (except the jackpot) by two, three, four or even five times!

You can check winning numbers by watching the drawings live on television, checking the winning numbers on the lottery’s Web site at www.ialottery.com, check drawings results in your local newspaper, listen for lottery results on local radio stations, visit a lottery retailer to get a print-out of the winning numbers, or call one of our offices for the details. And Powerball drawing results just began livestreaming on www.powerball.com as well.