UPDATE: Winning ticket sold at N.J. convenience store in Morris County
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Someone who bought Powerball ticket in New Jersey won Saturday’s night’s $33.2 million lottery jackpot.
New Jersey Lottery officials have not yet disclosed the retailer that sold the lucky ticket, which has a cash option of $24,831,027.77, according to Powerball officials.
Saturday’s winning numbers were: 1, 2, 7, 52 and 61. The Powerball drawn was 4 with a Power Play of 3X.
The drawing marked the second consecutive Saturday that a jackpot-winning ticket for the twice-weekly national drawing was sold in New Jersey. A $23.2 million ticket was bought at a Clifton convenience store for the Jan. 23 drawing.
In addition to the jackpot-winning ticket sold in New Jersey for Saturday’s drawing, four-second prize tickets matching five numbers but not the Powerball were sold across the country, officials said. Tickets bought in Delaware and Mississippi and worth $2 million because they were bought with the Power Play option for an extra $1. Tickets valued at $1 million apiece were purchased in Arkansas and Pennsylvania.
Wednesday’s jackpot resets to an estimated $20 million with a cash option of $15 million.
The odds of hitting the Powerball jackpot are 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 Wednesday and Saturday in 45 states, Washington D.C., the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
Jeff Goldman may be reached at jeff_goldman@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @JGoldmanNJ.
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