Manhattan Newsstand Sells Winning Powerball Ticket Worth $10,000

New York's first-ever Powerball drawing took place last night at 10:59pm. While there was no jackpot winner for the February 3rd drawing, there were 71,596 cash prize winning Poweball tickets sold in New York, including a $10,000 winner sold at the N M P Newsstand at the corner of 34th and 9th in Manhattan. Additionally there were 115 fourth prize winners of $100 each; 178 fifth prize winners of $100 each, 6,583 sixth prized winners of $7 each; 3,089 seventh prize winners of $7 each; 20,491 eighth prize winners of $4 each; and 41,139 prize winners of $3 each. The jackpot for the Friday, February 5, Powerball drawing is now $140,000,000.

Ticket sales for Powerball started in New York on Sunday, January 31st. The date marked the largest lottery agreement in U.S. history creating the biggest market ever for a jackpot game. As of Sunday, players in 33 jurisdictions were able to purchase tickets for both Powerball and the Mega Millions jackpot games at official lottery retail locations. The market has the potential to expand to 45 jurisdictions representing 291 million people and 182,000 retail outlets.

To play Powerball, players choose five numbers from 1 to 59 and one Powerball number from a separate field of 1 to 39. To win the jackpot players must match the first five numbers and the Powerball. There are also eight mid-tier prizes ranging from $200,000 to $3. Powerball also offers an optional play feature called "Power Play" that allows players to multiply their prizes won. Before every draw a multiplier number from 2X to 5X is drawn for players to use to multiply their winnings, except for the jackpot. Each Powerball game cost $1. The Power Play optional feature costs an extra $1. The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 195 million. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 35.

The New York Lottery continues to be North America's largest and most profitable Lottery, earning more than $36.7 billion in education support statewide since its founding over 40 years ago. The Lottery contributed nearly $2.54 billion in fiscal year 2008-09 to help support education in New York State, which was over 12 percent of total state education funding to local school districts. The Lottery's ongoing commitment to education also includes the awarding of more than 1,100 Leaders of Tomorrow (LOT) Scholarships annually to high school students pursuing their higher education in New York State. Since 1999, the Lottery has awarded more than 11,500 scholarships representing a total commitment of almost $50 million.

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