For the third time in a month, and the fourth time in three months, a Pennsylvania ticket has won $1 million in Powerball.
Saturday's annuity jackpot will be $57 million, because no one hit all the numbers drawn last night: 18, 23, 36, 47 and 59, with a Powerball of 36.
Two tickets, however, matched the first five numbers and had the Power Play multiplier option, a combination that automatically wins $1 million.
Those tickets were sold in Pennsylvania and North Carolina - duplicating the states that produced new millionaires on Saturday night.
Of course, the winners won't get seven-figure deposits, since taxes take quite a bite.
Pennsylvania also had $1 million winners in the drawings of Aug. 6 and June 11.
Two other tickets, sold in North Dakota and Tennessee, hit for $200,000 last night by matching all five white ball numbers, but not the Powerball.
Powerball is played in 30 states, including Delaware.
Mega Millions. On Friday, two tickets, sold in New York and California, won the multistate lottery's second biggest jackpot ever, $333 million. They have yet to come forward.
On Tuesday night, the jackpot was won again, this time in Georgia.
What a differeence a few days make: This one was worth $12 million.
Not that $12 million is anything to sneeze at.
That's what Friday's jackpot will be, as well.
Tuesday's numbers were 2, 9, 28, 51 and 53, with a Mega Ball of 19.
Winning $250,000 were two tickets each in California, Illinois, New York and Ohio, as well as one Maryland ticket.
Mega Millions is played in 12 states, including New Jersey.
For more lottery information, go to www.philly.com/philly/news/lottery.
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