Powerball Jumps $24M to $144 Million for Wednesday Night Drawing

The winning Powerball numbers for Saturday May 21, 2011 were:

02 08 40 49 50 Powerball 36 and Powerplay 3x

In this drawing, Lottery Power Picks recommended 807 combinations. Of these, we had 23 winners: (10) pb, (8) pb+1w, (2) pb+2w, and (3) 3w, returning $97 back to our players. Our 5 number pool had 2,178,330 combinations. The first winning other combos were located at:

• 3-w @ # 38 - LPP Winner
• 3-w + PB @ # 15,397
• 4-w @ # 8,115
• 5-w @ # 839,285

There were no PB jackpot winners, so the jackpot grows to $144 million with a cash option of $74.7M and a yield of 4.22%