Bad news for most Powerball players — but great news for whoever bought the winning ticket in West Virginia.

The Powerball Web site says the winning ticket for the 276.3 million dollar jackpot was sold in West Virginia.

The site says nearly 2 million other players won prizes totaling more than $12 million.

The winning numbers were six, 22, 42, 43 and 47. The Powerball was 16 and the Power Play was two.

The estimated jackpot for Wednesday is 15 million dollars.

DES MOINES, Iowa—One of the tickets sold in West Virginia for the Powerball game Saturday night matched all six numbers drawn, which were:

6-22-42-43-47

Powerball: 16

(six, twenty-two, forty-two, forty-three, forty-seven; Powerball sixteen)

Power Play: 2

The player matching all five numbers and the Powerball won the $276.3 million jackpot. The prize goes to an estimated $15 million for Wednesday.

Tickets that match the first five numbers, but miss the Powerball, win $200,000 each, and there were twelve of those. They were sold in: Arizona, Colorado, Kentucky(2), Louisiana, Minnesota, North Carolina(2), Pennsylvania(3) and Wisconsin.

There were two Power Play Match 5 winners in the states of: Iowa and North Carolina.
Multi-State Lottery Association: http://www.powerball.com/powerball/

Powerball Lottery Winner Numbers and Results for $275 Million Drawing Saturday March 15, the Ides of March, Posted on Finditt.

Winner lottery results for the Powerball drawing on March 15 can now be found on Finditt. Winning Lottery Numbers for the multi-state Powerball lottery along with the multi-state MEGA Millions and multi-country Euro Millions are displayed after each drawing.

Powerball holds drawings every Wednesday and Saturday evening with the current jackpot listed at $275 million for the March 15 drawing.

Finditt provides the latest winning lottery numbers for daily drawings in the United States, Canada, Mexico, UK and Ireland.

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Source: Trans World news

According to Bosot Globe one of the tickets sold in West Virginia for the Powerball game Saturday night matched all six numbers drawn, which were:
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6-22-42-43-47

Powerball: 16

(six, twenty-two, forty-two, forty-three, forty-seven; Powerball sixteen)

Power Play: 2

“The player matching all five numbers and the Powerball won the $276.3 million jackpot. The prize goes to an estimated $15 million for Wednesday.”

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