St. Patrick’s Day brings news of lottery luck in Iowa: Someone who bought a Powerball® ticket with the popular new Double Play® option added to it won BIG yesterday.
A Powerball Double Play ticket purchased at the Kwik Star convenience store at 1502 S. Federal Ave. in Mason City won a $500,000 prize last night.
The Double Play option made its Iowa debut in November in the Powerball game. For an extra $1 per play, you can add Double Play to your Powerball ticket. A Powerball play costs $2, and with Double Play added, a ticket costs $3.
The numbers on your ticket are then eligible to win twice – once in the regular Powerball drawing, and once in a separate Double Play drawing that same night. It’s possible for you to win a prize in the regular Powerball drawing and the Double Play drawing on the same night.
In the case of the Mason City ticket, it matched the first five numbers but missed the Powerball in last night’s Double Play drawing to win a $500,000 prize. It was the only ticket in the country to win a $500,000 prize last night.
Here’s how Double Play works: If you've added the Double Play option, the set of numbers on your ticket is then eligible for both the Powerball drawing and the Double Play drawing that same night.
Double Play has the same odds of winning as Powerball. But while Powerball has a rolling jackpot, Double Play has a set top cash prize of $10 million.
In both drawings, five winning numbers are selected from a main pool of 1-69 (in Powerball, the drawing balls are white; in Double Play, they’re black), and one red Powerball number is selected from a pool of 1-26.
To win the top prize in either drawing, your ticket needs to match all six winning numbers. But there are eight other ways to win in each drawing, starting with a prize for matching just the Powerball alone.
Last night’s winning Double Play numbers were: 9-11-13-29-69 and Double Play Powerball 12.
Kwik Star will receive a $500 bonus from the Iowa Lottery for selling the $500,000-winning ticket.
In the Powerball game overall, its giant jackpot continues to grow. No one won the jackpot last night, so the big prize has jumped up to an estimated $645 million annuity, $307.3 million lump-sum option for the game’s next drawing tomorrow night.
Last night’s winning Powerball numbers were: 12-23-44-57-61 and Powerball 5. The Power Play number was 2.
Prizes of $500,000 have to be claimed at Iowa Lottery headquarters in Clive. The lottery’s offices are open Monday through Friday, and appointments are strongly encouraged for those claims.
To make an appointment or contact the lottery with questions, winners are welcome to call us at 515-725-7900 or email us at [email protected].
Powerball Double Play prizes won in Iowa have to be claimed within 180 days of the drawing where they were won.
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