Someone in New Jersey this morning could be holding a tiny piece of paper worth a massive amount of money: $338.3 million.
One winning ticket was sold for Saturday night's huge Powerball jackpot, and it was purchased somewhere in the Garden State.
Which county, which town and which store remains a mystery and the New Jersey Lottery will release details on Monday, the Associated Press reports.
One lottery player in Iowa won $2 million in Saturday's drawing, and lottery players in 11 other states won $1 million for matching five of the six winning numbers: Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Virginia.
These were the winning numbers drawn at 11 p.m. Saturday: 17, 29, 31, 52 and 53. The Powerball was 31.
The jackpot was initially estimated at $320 million and later climbed to $338.3 million. The cash option was worth around $209 million, making this the fourth-highest ever jackpot in the 21-year history of the multi-state lottery game, and the 8th-largest of any lottery game in history.
The biggest previous jackpot this year was a $217 million haul, which an airport traveler in the Richmond, Va., area won on Feb. 6.
In Nov., 2012, Powerball broke all of its previous records when a November jackpot soared to $588 million — the 2nd-largest lottery jackpot in history. That hefty sum was split between two tickets sold in Missouri and Arizona.
Congrats to the NJ winner!
Texas needs a PB jackpot.
Alright california, let's make the $10 mil minimum increases a thing of the past. Tell your friends and neighbors to spend spend, spend!
the winner should play The Sopranos theme song on their drive to the lottery office. I know I would.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUT07eZoXPw
Figures the winner comes from the state that will tax their winnings the most out of all fifty states.
What it must feel like to wake up, see the local news and hear the winner is from New Jersey and go check your tickets to see that you just won about $200,000,000.
Congrats, wish it were me.
So happy for whoever won, even the smaller amounts of 1million... congrats
Congrats, and spend it well!
Congratulations to all the winners
LOL pay those taxes
It's interesting new jersey has always hit it big in march in certain years. Some one in new jersey 2012 won exactly within days of this win in 2013....Coincidence? Going further back, no win in 2011, but there was in 2010... Hopefully these coincidences don't keep popping up.
But anyways, hopefully whoever the winner is, I hope its someone that needed it, and not some scummy wallstreeter or something like that.
Piaceri, I like your signature I'm from Lansing
I hope it was "some scummy wallstreeter" who can manage it and NOT piss it away.
Thank you! I lived there for 22 years. I still have one in school at MSU, and one with a boyfriend still there. I always liked Izzo, and will root for MSU as long as he is there.
Just because they could do it, doesn't mean it was right to screw over decent people.
Cry me a river...............
Congrats to all the winners, hope everyone enjoys , their lucky winfall
Perhaps it was Thrifty getting his long awaited win? He is from NY and buys tickets in Jersey?
So you are with that crowd, good for you.
Powerball ticket worth $338 million sold in N.J.
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Im not a broke ass cry baby if thats what you mean?
oops, add sully16
Good for you Sully, I'm happy for the winner also. May they live long and enjoy their good fortune.
Well boys and girls the fun is over, for now. I will not be going on my Muscha-Cay dream vacation or getting a new house with a big garage to store my new Lamborghini, Ferrari, and porsche 911 turbo any time soon. Can't say that I'm not disappointed but after playing the lottery for years you expect to lose. It's really nothing more than a fantasy to "dream" that you will win. In reality I know that winning is something that will likely never happen, not even a lower prize win. I'm not giving up but after big jackpots like this it does make you realize how silly and perposterous it is to try and win something like the powerball or any lottery. I only played a few dollars worth this time but others played much, much more and this morning they only have worthless paper to show for it. It's the nature of the game but it's really nothing more than a "voluntary" tax on people and a lot of middle to lower class people at that who can't really afford it.
So one winner gets the entire pot, I actually don't mind this personally. But I mean who really needs to win over $100 million after taxes? Nobody. It's insanse. But to the winner I offer you nothing but congratulations, good luck and hope you spend it however you want. Blow it all on toys and crap or leave it sitting in your bank earning interest. Whatever makes you happy do it and forget what other people say.
As for me, I will probably still play when the jackpots are up there but as far as actually believing I will win one day, that's over. The lottery offers a false hope of becoming rich for millions of people who will never be rich. Maybe that's good...maybe it's bad.
Again, congrats to the winner. Wish it was me but that's life.
Not sure what you mean by that. The ones that are rich, most of them are greedy, the keyword is MOST, if you have to buy someone off to change the rules to become even richer the dirty crooked way, and can't conduct business ethically without causing damage.
I meant to buy tickets yesterday but was so tired that I wrote down my numbers on a piece of paper and waited to commit suicide if they were drawn haha lol they didn't so I won't. Sometimes I think playing PB is an exercise at futility and then I buy a ticket lol
Number one, how would you know? Number two, I thought being rich was a good thing?
Life is to short, enjoy everyday whether you win the lottery or not.
lol. I bought my usual lines, but also refrained from buying a bunch of extra tickets.