Sorry, you're not an overnight billionaire, but you might be a millionaire.
Someone who bought a Powerball ticket in Southern California is the lucky winner of the world-record jackpot worth more than $2 billion, but there are several people in Pennsylvania and New Jersey who now have a million reasons to celebrate.
There were at least four tickets sold in our area with prizes of $1 million, according to lottery officials. Those tickets matched all five white balls. On Tuesday, the New Jersey Lottery shared where three big tickets were sold in the Garden State:
- News Nook, 17 S Centre St., Merchantville, Camden County;
- 7-Eleven #27890, 222 Dutch Neck Rd., Hightstown, Mercer County; and,
- Atlantis Fresh Market #37, 421 US Highway 1 South, Edison, Middlesex County.
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Check your ticket: The numbers drawn Tuesday were: 10, 33, 41, 47, 56 and the red Powerball 10.
There were also eight New Jersey Lottery tickets that matched four of the five white balls and the Powerball drawn winning the $50,000 third-tier prize. Two of those were in Mercer and Burlington counties, New Jersey lottery officials said in a release. One of those tickets, sold in Passaic County, was purchased with Power Play, multiplying the prize to $100,000.
Pennsylvania lottery officials announced six winning Powerball tickets were sold in the Commonwealth, totaling $1.5 million. One of those tickets, sold at a Turkey Hill in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, was worth $1 million. The five others worth $100,000 were sold in Northampton, Luzerne, Lycoming, Crawford and Montgomery counties:
- Wawa, 3300 Schoenersville Road, Bethlehem, Northampton County;
- PSC Main Street, 412 South Main St., Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, County;
- Unity Food Mart, 219 North Main St., Muncy, Lycoming County;
- Country Fair, 515 Main St., Saegertown, Crawford County; and,
- Giant, 2450 Chemical Road, Plymouth Meeting, Montgomery County.
Nationwide, there were 22 $1 million tickets that matched all five white ball numbers, and one sold in Florida that did the same with the Power Play option worth $2 million.
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Lottery officials said the jackpot climbed beyond its earlier estimate of $1.9 billion to $2.04 billion. The cash value was $997.6 million. The drawing Monday night was delayed by a security process hiccup.
The odds of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number is 1 in 292.2 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game.
