New Jersey also had 15 Powerball tickets sold worth $50,000 and one $100,000 ticket.
won on Oct. 23, 2018. The $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot for Saturday is an estimate and could potentially take over the top spot depending on ticket sales.
The New Jersey $1 million and $2 million tickets bought for Wednesday’s drawing were among 19 second-prize tickets sold across the country as players hoped to win the $1.248 billion jackpot.officials have already announced a $1 million ticket was bought at Smokes 4 Less in Newburgh. No $1 million tickets were sold in Delaware or Pennsylvania.
As a result of no one matching all the numbers, the jackpot will go unclaimed for a 39th straight drawing dating to Aug. 3 when aare 292,201,388 to 1. A player who buys a $2 ticket has about a 1 in 11,688,053 chance to match five numbers and win at least $1 million, while the odds are 913,129 to 1 of winning the third prize of at least $50,000.
Powerball is played on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday in 45 states, as well as Washington, D.C., the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
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