7 West Virginia Powerball Powerplay tickets win $14 million on one Feb 29th leap year day

The new Powerball lottery advertises more "more millionaires" and last night, they paid off in West Virginia.

In the Wednesday, February 29th leap year drawing, seven individual Powerball Powerplay tickets matched the 5 white balls and won $2 million each.

The white numbers drawn were:

01 04 11 23 26.

We classify these as birthday numbers because they can be simply chosen from a combination of month and day digits only.

Uniquely, all 7 of the winning $2M Powerplay tickets were sold in the one state of West Virginia.  We don't know if these were purchased by:

• one individual (or group),
• multiple players,
• selected at random by Quick Pick, or
• chosen from one's birthday or anniversary date.

But, we do know that the choice of spending the extra $1 for the Powerplay option was a very wise decision.

In addition to these 7 tickets, four other tickets spattered across the country matched this combination as well. However, the winning tickets sold in Colorado, Iowa, Illinois and Texas did not contain the Powerplay option and only paid out $1 million to each of the owners.

We congratulate all the winners and would love to know how these winning numbers were chosen and who won or split the $14 million payout in WV.