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Power Ball Lottery – Power Ball Jackpot
Most jackpot lottery games increase in size when they are not won by way of a Rollover until such time that the winning lottery numbers are selected. Having said that – some lotteries Rollover more times than others and have much bigger incremental increases each time the top prize is not won – thus producing some absolutely huge lottery jackpots. This is just what makes the Powerball jackpot stand out among the vast majority of world lotteries – the size that its jackpot often reaches.
Powerball Jackpot – Overview
The Powerball jackpot figure is eagerly awaited twice every week after the draw has taken place every Wednesday and Saturday evening. The majority of lottery jackpots around the world tend to PEAK at anywhere between $5 Million & $15 Million and this, of course, would be a fantastic sum of money to win. Since it began as Lotto America back in 1988 – the Power Ball jackpot has AVERAGED out at between $95.5 Million & $141 Million and – this is the exciting bit – the Power Ball Results will very regularly produce jackpots that rollover to amounts that are very much larger than this. You will see that – more often than not – the Powerball lotto jackpot is being advertised at anything upwards of $50 Million, $100 Million and very often even $200 Million making it among the TOP 2 World Lottery games in the whole of the lottery industry and certainly one of the richest lotteries available. Every now & then the Power Ball Jackpot will rise to even greater heights of over $200 Million and even $300 Million or more by which time the whole of the lottery playing world will be sitting up and taking notice. This is what makes the Powerball Lottery such a firm favourite with so many millions of lottery players right across the USA and the rest of the world.
Powerball Jackpot Rollover
The size of the Powerball jackpot figures mentioned above are frequent and most other world lotteries are quite simply not capable of producing lottery jackpots so high – the reasons for this we will explain shortly. Most world lottery jackpot games that increase in size when the top prize is not won have a limit on how many times they can rollover before they roll down with the prize then being shared among the next level of prize winners. With the Powerball – there is no limit at all as to how many times the Power Ball jackpot can rollover when no-one correctly picks the Powerball winning numbers. The fact that the Powerball lottery can rollover an unlimited number of times is one of the main reasons why the Powerball jackpot can reach such high levels. To check out the size of the current Powerball Jackpot prize... Visit Our Dedicated ROLLOVER Page to See the CURRENT JACKPOT
Powerball Jackpot Record
As we have seen – the Power Ball lottery regularly produces some truly massive jackpots – the biggest Powerball jackpot to date being an incredible US$ 365 Million. This record Powerball jackpot was won on February 18th 2006 by 8 lucky Powerball winners from Nebraska and still stands as the largest lottery jackpot ever to have been won in the world on a single ticket. The lucky Powerball winners on this memorable occasion were all colleagues at the ConAgra Foods plant in Lincoln – Michael Terpstra, Robert Stewart, Alain Maboussou, David Gehle, Eric Zornes, Quang Dao, Chasity Rutjens and Dung Tran. The winning Powerball Numbers for this record jackpot draw were as follows: 5, 17, 43, 44, 48 and the Power Ball was 29. Apart from this amazing Powerball jackpot here are 12 others just since 2004 that have been in excess of US$ 200 Million – here they are… On April 12th 2006 a massive Power Ball jackpot of US$ 224 Million was won by a group of 13 State employees from Missouri – a record at the time for any Missouri Lottery win. Another huge Power Ball jackpot followed soon afterwards on August 5th 2006 when US$ 208.6 Million was won by a group of 100 from Wisconsin called the “100 Miracles”. A fourth Powerball Jackpot in 2006 over US$ 200 Million was won by Tom and Kellie Guderian from Fort Dodge, Iowa on September 23rd. Their Power Ball jackpot win of US$ 200.8 Million is still the largest win in the history of the Iowa Lottery. January 24th 2007 saw a Power Ball jackpot of US$ 254 Million won by the Wilson family from St.Louis – a record Missouri Lottery win at the time. David W. Coterel, his son David W. Coterel Jr. and daughter Lyn Hiles all from the Dayton area of Ohio won a fantastic US$ 314.3 Million Power Ball jackpot on August 25th 2007. On March 15th 2008 a Power Ball jackpot of US$ 276.3 Million was won by 8 workers from the Mongolia Tax Office in West Virginia. The largest ever Power Ball jackpot in New Mexico Lottery history was the incredible US$ 206.9 Million prize won by 9 residents from Roswell on September 27th 2008. Neila Wanless from Mission, South Dakota won a huge US$ 232.1 Million Powerball jackpot on May 27th 2009 – the largest Power Ball jackpot in the history of the South Dakota Lottery. On August 19th 2009 – Solomon Jackson Jr. enjoyed the largest lottery win in the history of the South Carolina Education Lottery when he correctly matched the winning POWERBALL numbers of 14, 24, 31, 43, 51 and a POWER Ball of 27. Solomon won a life-changing US$ 259.9 Million Powerball jackpot. Sandra McNeil from new Jersey scooped a US$ 211.7 Million Powerball jackpot on March 13th 2010 – the largest since the New Jersey lottery began offering the Powerball game on January 31st the same year. The largest Powerball jackpot win to be achieved in the State of Missouri occurred on April 21st 2010 when US$ 258.5 Million was won by Chris Shaw from Marshall. This is the largest lottery prize ever won to date in Missouri Lottery history. June 2nd 2010 saw the Blind Trust from Ohio win a massive US$ 261 Million Power Ball jackpot – the largest Powerball win in the State since the Ohio Lottery began selling Powerball Tickets on April 16th 2010.
Powerball – Multi State Lottery...
Another of the main reasons that the Powerball lotto creates such incredibly huge jackpot figures is that it truly is a Multi State lottery. So many of the State Lotteries across the USA participate in the Powerball game and each of these 44 different States has a large proportion of lottery players that play Powerball and help to make up the vast Powerball Prize pool. With more and more States having joined in offering the Power Ball game this can only mean one thing for the lucky Powerball winner – even bigger jackpot figures due to an ever increasing number of players contributing to the Powerball prize fund. In addition to all the US Lottery players taking part – now that anyone from around the world can also Play Powerball Online – there are so many players from outside the USA also trying to become Power Ball winners that you can rest assured that the average size of the Powerball jackpot will only be going in one direction – upwards...
Powerball Jackpot – Summary...
It is now very easy to see how the Power Ball game regularly offers some of the biggest and most exciting lottery jackpots in the world to play for. The Powerball lottery results speak for themselves – I’m sure we would all like to take advantage of relevant and available Powerball Statistics to help us pick those Power Ball winning numbers. However you may purchase your Powerball Tickets – whether you playPowerball online or buy Powerball Tickets from your local store – you could certainly make your dreams come true and become a Power Ball winner by taking part in the one of the biggest lottery games in the world. See below for further details on how to play Powerball online and where to find the winning Power Ball numbers including the very latest Power Ball result and even past Power Ball lottery results. Click Here to READ MORE about the Powerball Lottery Click Here to PLAY Powerball NOW Click Here to Check the LATEST Powerball Lottery RESULT Click Here to Check PAST Powerball RESULTS Click Here to See the LATEST Powerball JACKPOT Click Here to Read about the Powerball PRIZES Click Here to Read about the Powerball RULES Click Here to Read about Powerball TICKETS Click Here to Read about the Powerball Lottery NUMBERS Click Here to Read about the Powerball POWERPLAY Number Click Here to Read about Powerball STATISTICS Click Here to See Where to Find the POWERBALL RESULTS on TV Click Here to Read about and see Which are the Powerball STATES Click Here to See the Powerball MINI-WEBSITE
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