10X Hits!

The 10X hit in Saturday night’s Powerball drawing, bringing to a close the Power Play 10X promotion that had been running since early May and was extended for more time a couple weeks ago.

More than 2,500 tickets purchased by Iowa Lottery players won 10X prizes in Saturday’s drawing, including a ticket in extreme eastern Iowa that won a $100,000 prize.

The $100,000-winning ticket was sold in Sabula, which is along the Mississippi River in Jackson County. The ticket originally won a $10,000 prize, but the player also had added the Power Play® option to the winning play, which multiplied the prize to $100,000!

Here’s how the 10X feature worked: The Power Play option normally gives Powerball players the chance to multiply their non-jackpot Powerball prizes by 2, 3, 4 or 5 times for an additional $1 per play. At the beginning of each Powerball drawing, an animated spinner presents that night’s multiplier number. But during the promotion, one of the 5X multipliers in the Power Play feature was replaced with a 10X. When the 10X was selected Saturday, that meant prizes with the Power Play option were multiplied by 10 times. (Jackpot prizes are not eligible for the Power Play.)

The $100,000-winning ticket was sold at the Hop N Shop, 416 Broad St. in Sabula. The ticket matched four of the first five numbers and the Powerball in Saturday’s $45.7 million jackpot drawing. The winning numbers that night were: 9-12-13-35-38 and Powerball 30. No one won the jackpot Saturday, so it climbs to an estimated $60 million for tomorrow’s drawing.

Comments

[Steve Teague]

The Lottery should run the 10x all the time. Look how long it took to come up once. ( 6 weeks ) Just my 2 cents.