Lottery jackpots grow; Pa. ticket wins $200K

By Peter Mucha

Inquirer Staff Writer

Tomorrow's top Mega Millions prize will be worth $63 million, and Saturday's Powerball jackpot will be $80 million, because no one hit all the numbers in the latest drawings.

Five tickets, including one sold in Pennsylvania, came close last night in Powerball.

They all had the first five numbers - 10, 11, 14, 45 and 51 - but missed the Powerball of 17.

One of the tickets - sold in North Carolina - won $1 million for also having the Power Play multiplier option.

The others, including Colorado and Florida tickets, won $200,000 each.

Powerball is played in 31 states, including Delaware, and Washington, D.C.

In Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing, the numbers were 5, 18, 23, 31 and 38, with a Mega Ball of 20.

Three tickets - sold in New York, Georgia and Massachusetts - won $250,000 each for having the first five numbers but not the Mega Ball.

Mega Millions is played in 12 states, including New Jersey and Maryland.

For more lottery information, go to www.philly.com/philly/news/lottery, www.powerball.com or www.megamillions.com.

Contact staff writer Peter Mucha at 215-854-4342 or pmucha@phillynews.com.

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Comments

Posted 09:02 AM, 11/05/2009

NotADoneDeal

This is not news reporting. News reporting would cover the predatory practices of the lottery, would investigate how our state government discourages people from saving and would expose the amount of money the lottery spends on marketing. Instead we continue to see the Inquirer shilling for the lottery by reporting only on the size of the jackpots.

Posted 11:21 AM, 11/05/2009

MST

Uh -- no one is forcing anyone to buy a lottery ticket. If you don't approve, don't play.

Posted 11:25 AM, 11/05/2009

rcapone5929

Calm yourself, dude. I agree that this news site is lacking but no one is forced to play the lottery. It's a choice that each person makes on their own, the same as someone choosing to go to or not step foot in a casino. Exactly what predatory practices are you talking about? The fact that the lottery tries to be in as many locations as possible to maximize its sales? That's called being a business, like the lottery is. And like any other business, their customers have a choice to patronize them or not. Also, like any other business, the lottery markets to the general public to increase their sales. There is nothing wrong with a business like the lottery spending money on TV & radio commercials and print ads.

Posted 12:42 PM, 11/05/2009

Jack Daniels on the rocks

I am considering using my paycheck this week on scratch off lotto tickets, good investment or bad?

Posted 04:49 PM, 11/05/2009

MST

Of course you shouldn't spend your paycheck on the lottery, JD.I buy scratch-off tickets once in awhile. Once I won $500.00, but usually I just win about $10.00. It's just for FUN, people!