Wednesday Powerball Results 08/31/16 - Next Jackpot $170M

No Powerball Jackpot Winners

The winning Powerball numbers for Wednesday Aug 31, 2016 were:

05 10 24 56 61  Powerball 12 - Powerplay 2x

Cheesy Chips & Tickets (from http://www.pressherald.com/2016/01/09/with-the-jackpot-at-a-record-800-million-and-counting-mainers-catch-powerball-fever/ )

And, no ( 0 ) tickets matched the 5 white balls and won the 2nd place prize again.

$2 Million (with Powerplay) :  No winners

$1 Million (ticket only) :  No winners

California (Match 5) $820,617 : No winners

In this drawing, Lottery Power Picks recommended 931 combinations. Of these, we had 42 winners: (21) pb, (11) pb+1w, (4) pb+2w, (5) 3w, and (1) 4w, returning $291 back to our players. Our 5 number pool had 1,614,060 combinations. The first winning other combos were located at:

• 3-w @ # 133 - LPP Winner
• 3-w + PB @ # 1,362
• 4-w @ # 310 - LPP winner
• 5-w @ # 832,227

There were no PB jackpot winners, so the jackpot grows to $170 million with a cash option of $118.1M and a yield of 2.22%

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