On January 4, 2009, the Powerball game will change. As Florida will join Powerball on January 4, 2009 Powerball is adding some white ball numbers and subtracting some of the red ball numbers.

Fourteen employees of the City of Piqua, Ohio, and one relative of a city worker, purchased their winning ticket, a $5 wager using the Lottery’s auto-pick feature, at a Kroger store in Piqua. On Friday, December 12, the ticket won them $207 million Mega Millions jackpot.

During the Mega Millions draw held on Friday, the 12th of December, one of the tickets matched all five numbers of 10, 16, 19, 27, 48 and the Megaball of 25.

On Saturday, the 22th of November Indiana resident matched all 6 numbers of 17, 19, 26, 32, 45 and the Powerball of 14 and won $57,600,000.

On Wednesday, the 29th of October Pennsylvania resident matched all 6 numbers of 20, 30, 37, 50, 52 and the Powerball of 33 and won $58,600,000. The Power Play multiplier was 2.

Georgia resident  Mark Staffa, 33, matched all five winning numbers of 16-19-39-42-44 and the Mega Ball of 38 in Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawing and won a $42 million jackpot.

During their lifetime Chris Crane and his wife Tina have been lucky with the lottery twice. However, the first win, $7, was nothing  to compare with the one they received fairly recently. With $42 million winning Crane has become Michigan’s 6th largest Mega Millions jackpot winner.