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4 winning tickets in $100 million Florida LotteryHuge Powerball jackpot sparks brisk sales
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (CNN) -- Four winning Florida Lottery tickets were purchased across the state, and the winners -- who have not yet come forward -- will split an estimated $100 million jackpot, the state's lottery spokesman Sam Oliver said late Saturday. The tickets matching the winning lottery numbers of 6, 14, 18, 36, 39 and 45 were bought in Ft. Pierce, Jacksonville, Marco Island, and Bonifay, which is about 45 miles north of Panama City, Oliver said. Ticket sales in Florida peaked at 50,000 per minute, and it was not just Floridians who were buying them. "We're certainly welcoming our Georgia and Alabama neighbors to purchase our tickets," Florida Lottery spokesman Tom Dolan said. "We welcome their dollars." Meanwhile, the hundreds of thousands of people who bought Powerball tickets in 23 states, D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands were 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. 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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