Officials: Winner Of $429.6 Million Powerball In NJ Has Yet To Come Forward
Lottery officials in New Jersey said Sunday the ticket was sold at a 7-Eleven in Trenton.
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Lottery officials in New Jersey said Sunday the ticket was sold at a 7-Eleven in Trenton.
Someone is holding onto the sole winning Powerball ticket that was sold in New Jersey and is worth $429.6 million, lottery officials said Sunday.
In Wednesday night's drawing, one ticket in New York and one in Florida each matched five numbers, earning $1 million prizes.
No one has won the full jackpot since March 2 and the multi-state lottery estimates Wednesday night's drawing will be worth $348 million.
Maureen Smith, 70, and 55-year-old David Kaltschmidt, who claimed the prize as "The Nickel 95 Trust," opted to take the lump sum payment of about $327.8 million.
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A Tennessee couple did not have to worry about the sinking stock values on Wall Street Friday afternoon, because they showed the world one of three winning Powerball tickets.
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The numbers have been drawn, and hopeful buyers were checking their tickets late Wednesday.
More than 1,000 people on Long Island have pooled their money for a better chance at winning Wednesday's record Powerball jackpot.
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The Powerball jackpot keeps getting bigger and bigger. The prize for Wednesday's drawing has jumped to an estimated $1.5 billion.
The Powerball jackpot has grown to $1.4 billion, and the drawing is still two days away.
Lottery officials say no ticket has matched all six Powerball numbers.
Powerball announced the six winning numbers for a record jackpot of nearly $950 million on Saturday, setting off a scramble among hopeful lottery players across the country to check if they held a lucky ticket.
The record Powerball jackpot just got bigger, climbing to a whopping $800 million as sales soared in the days leading up to the drawing.
The estimated prize for this weekend's Powerball drawing is the largest jackpot of any lottery game in U.S. history.
A lottery official said early Thursday that there was no jackpot winner in the drawing for a Powerball prize worth more than $500 million.
Lottery officials say there was no grand prize winner in the first Powerball drawing of the year that also offers one of the biggest prizes in the game's history.
The first Powerball drawing of the year has one of the biggest prizes in the game's history.
No one won the jackpot on Wednesday and the next drawing is set for Saturday.
Since there were no winners in Saturday night's drawing, the Powerball jackpot for Wednesday's is currently at $301 million.
The current Powerball jackpot is one of the 50 biggest in the country, but $201-million could soon look like chump change.
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