The Powerball jackpot for Saturday’s lottery drawing has climbed to an estimated $149 million with a cash option of $68.1 million.
The drawing will be held at 10:59 p.m. and televised on WABC-7 in New York City and Fox 29 in Philadelphia. NJ.com will publish the winning numbers immediately following the drawing.
No one across the country hit Wednesday’s $130 million jackpot. In addition, there were no second-prize $1 million winners.
In New Jersey, a $50,000 third-prize ticket was sold at QuickChek on Stelton Road in Piscataway in Middlesex Coounty, state lottery officials said. The lucky ticket matched four numbers plus the Powerball.
Wednesday’s winning numbers were: 2, 20, 22, 26 and 47. The Powerball drawn was 21 with a Power Play of 4X.
In addition, no one hit the secondary, $10 million Double Play jackpot or won the second-prize of $500,000. Those winning numbers were: 23, 25, 45, 46 and 62. The Double Play number drawn was 25.
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 to win a third prize of at least $50,000.
Powerball drawings are held each Monday, Wednesday and Saturday in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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