This new year, Washington\u2019s Lottery <\/a>will begin offering the new $2\u00a0Powerball game<\/a> Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012, taking the place of the current $1\u00a0Powerball game.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Powerball is receiving a makeover across the nation.\u00a0 Washington\u2019s Lottery wants to make sure players in our state understand the changes taking place.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The overall odds of winning a prize will improve in the new\u00a0Powerball\u00ae game, moving to 1 in 31.8 from 1 in 35.1. With the new $2 play,\u00a0Powerball will have starting jackpots of $40 million versus todays $20 million.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cSince 2010\u00a0Powerball\u00ae has offered Washingtonians the kind of jackpots that could be completely life-changing. You can only imagine how excited we are to continue to do this through the new $2\u00a0Powerball\u00ae game \u2013 except with bigger prizes, now players can imagine bigger.\u201d said Washington\u2019s Lottery Deputy Director Jim Warick.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The new\u00a0Powerball game will still offer players nine ways to win prizes, with its second tier prize moving up to $1 million in cash from the current $200,000, and the lowest tiered prize (for those who match just the Powerball) being elevated to $4 from the previous $3.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This new year, Washington\u2019s Lottery will begin offering the new $2 Powerball game Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012, taking the place of the current $1 Powerball game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-23463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23463"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}