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Huge lottery jackpots spark brisk ticket sales
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (CNN) -- Hopeful players checked their Florida Lottery tickets Saturday night, hoping to see a match to the winning numbers of 6, 14, 18, 36, 39 and 45 to win an estimated $100 million jackpot. The winning numbers have not yet been certified. The hundreds of thousands of people who bought Powerball tickets in 23 states, D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands were also scrutinizing their tickets to see if theirs matched the winning numbers of 8, 17, 24, 42 and 44, with a Powerball number of 37 and a Powerplay number of 2. A match would net the ticketholder the right to an estimated jackpot of $125 million. These numbers have not been certified either. In Florida, which doesn't participate in the Powerball game, ticket sales peaked at 50,000 per minute. Florida Lottery spokesman Tom Dolan said it's not just Floridians who are buying them. "We're certainly welcoming our Georgia and Alabama neighbors to purchase our tickets," he said. "We welcome their dollars." Tickets also went fast in the Powerball states. Joe Mahoney, spokesman for the Multi-State Lottery Association, said when jackpots get over the $100 million mark, ticket sales start to move more quickly because it draws in people who don't regularly play the lottery. The biggest jackpot in Powerball history was $295.7 million, won by a group of factory workers in Columbus, Ohio in 1998. They bought their tickets in Indiana. Powerball tickets can be purchased in the following states: Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wisconsin, as well as Washington D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands. -- CNN Correspondent Mark Potter contributed to this report
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