St. Pat's Weekend Brings Luck in Iowa: $500,000-Winning Ticket in Mason City
Powerball Ticket With New Double Play Option Hits Big
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CLIVE, Iowa - 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 on Saturday.
A $500,000-winning Powerball Double Play ticket was purchased at the Kwik Star convenience store at 1502 S. Federal Ave. in Mason City.
The Double Play option made its Iowa debut in November in the Powerball game. For an extra $1 per play, players can add the Double Play option to their Powerball tickets. (A Powerball play costs $2, and with Double Play added, a ticket costs $3.) The numbers on that 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 a player 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 Saturday's Double Play drawing to win a $500,000 prize. It was the only ticket in the country to win a $500,000 prize that night.
Here is how Double Play works: For players who have added Double Play to their purchase, the set of numbers on their ticket is 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 are black), and one red Powerball number is selected from a pool of 1-26.
To win the top prize in either drawing, a ticket must 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.
Saturday'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 on Saturday, so the big prize has increased to an estimated $645 million annuity, $307.3 million lump-sum option for the game's next drawing on Monday.
Saturday's winning Powerball numbers were: 12-23-44-57-61 and Powerball 5. The Power Play number was 2.
Prizes of $500,000 must 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 the lottery at 515-725-7900 or email to wmaster@ialottery.com.
Powerball Double Play prizes won in Iowa must be claimed within 180 days of the drawing in which they were won.
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