8 people to split $429.6 million Powerball lottery jackpot in NJ

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rock_nc — Sat, 14 May 2016 03:17:04 GMT

Congrats to you all!! I was wondering which one had the dream, to play the numbers. Wow!!! What a nice payday

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Funtimz — Fri, 13 May 2016 22:47:19 GMT

Congrats to the Smith family! Enjoy

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music* — Fri, 13 May 2016 22:40:58 GMT

Thank You, Todd, for having the video of the conference. This press event has helped me plan ahead for my special day in the near future.

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ressuccess — Fri, 13 May 2016 21:26:43 GMT

Congratulations to them. They will likely take the lump sum.

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jacintasc — Fri, 13 May 2016 20:16:10 GMT

Congratulations

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LiveInGreenBay — Fri, 13 May 2016 19:48:26 GMT

The vendor only gets 30K on a jackpot that large??? In Wisconsin supercash the jackpot is 350K and the vendor gets 7K for selling the ticket. Cheapskates

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quicksloth35 — Fri, 13 May 2016 19:28:20 GMT

Big congrats to the winners. Get your ducks in order, then party

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Rman313 — Fri, 13 May 2016 19:16:19 GMT

I always manually pic my numbers. I read the stats on this page and on another. I pick the more frequent falling numbers and that has brought me several types of wins.0+1, 3+0, 2+1 wins. Check Maddogs MM PB Challenges. Congrats to the BIG TIME WINNERS

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SoleWinner21 — Fri, 13 May 2016 18:25:28 GMT

The government is already rubbing their grubby hands for their share. Which they blow throught in 5 seconds.

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MoneyMike$ — Fri, 13 May 2016 17:39:22 GMT

Always pick your own #s in the words of Richard Lustig haha no but really if my 5 year old niece can pick 3 out of 5 then so can you I wouldnt leave ym fate in a qp's hands a qp is in addition.. I will win a jackpot one day

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RalphZero — Fri, 13 May 2016 17:27:28 GMT

Congratulations to the team in Jersey!!!!!

How many total combinations did they buy?

They created their own combination instead of quick picks?

This leads me to believe the combination is known ahead of and all the powerball machine quick pick generators are set to not give out that combination.

I need to come up my set of numbers.

There has been 63 PB drawing since they change the number af balls.

There are 292,201,338 different combinations. meaning there are 292,201,275 comb... [ More ]

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Saylorgirl — Fri, 13 May 2016 16:48:26 GMT

I agree...Boom!! That is why I kept plugging in the same numbers year after year after year

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noise-gate — Fri, 13 May 2016 16:20:04 GMT

Perhaps this person has been picking their own numbers for years.. and losing. Then one day....Boom

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LOTTOKING2016 — Fri, 13 May 2016 16:15:23 GMT

Manually picked numbers amazing....This happens once in a blue moon...He/She must be extremely lucky

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noise-gate — Fri, 13 May 2016 16:11:46 GMT

Nice nice. Having more winners when the jackpot is this high gives hope to those who have been playing for years have nothing to show for it. Sharing is caring. I love it when things come together.

Congrats to our new winners..

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music* — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:14:16 GMT

Cashing in on a slow newsday like a Friday. Smart. Too bad the third winner of the record-breaking PB is not cashing in today too. That would help these NJ winners when dealing with the Press and Public.

I am guessing that all eight are related to each other. Siblings? Cousins? Congratulations

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KinG666BLaZe — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:07:37 GMT

You gotta respect the person who entered in their own picks and won. None of this magical something told me to buy 9 quick picks instead of 10 and I won, garbage. But that's just my opinion. My history with quick picks is terrible. I always get closer when choosing my own numbers. Also I feel slightly better that it will be split 8 ways. hahaha

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dr65 — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:02:56 GMT

Uh oh.

8 people to split $429.6 million Powerball lottery jackpot in NJ

Lottery Post — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:58:41 GMT

The New Jersey Lottery has announced a press conference will be held at their headquarters Friday afternoon to introduce the winners of last week's Powerball. The press conference will be held at 3:00 p.m.

The announcement comes a little less than a week after a winning Powerball ticket was sold at a 7-11 store in Trenton, New Jersey.

Eight winners will be shareholders of that $429.6 million Powerball jackpot.

Only one ticket matched all six Powerball numbers in Saturday night's drawing... [ More ]