Here’s a way to build some excitement into your July 4th weekendPurchase a chance to win $200 million dollars by playing POWERBALL from the Idaho Lottery. After taxes, the winner still receives $134,320 million dollars. When paid as an annuity over 29 years, that’s an annual income of just over 4.6 million dollars! That’s a tax-free $88,000 a week and a daily wage (based on an average work week) of $17,600.

PowerPlay was added to POWERBALL in March of 2002 to generate more thousandaires by winning POWERBALL’S next highest prize. So even if you don’t win the POWERBALL jackpot, the next cash prize is $100,000 which can be multiplied as much as 5 times to $500,000 with the PowerPlay feature.

POWERBALL earns big money for the state of Idaho. q In fiscal year 2003, POWERBALL sales alone generated over $6 million in state dividend funds. q Since Idaho introduced a big jackpot game back in 1990, these sales have generated over $80 million. q Total Idaho Lottery sales have earned over $250 million for Idaho’s public schools and buildings since 1989. 

POWERBALL can be played at over 500 retailers throughout Idaho. The $200 million Powerball drawing is this Saturday, July 5th at 8:59 pm Mountain Daylight Time/7:59pm Pacific Daylight Time. The cash option for Saturday night’s drawing is $114 million. Remember, with a jackpot this huge, please play responsibly.