A single New Jersey ticket has won a $338.3 million Powerball jackpot, the biggest lottery prize in that state's history. Where in the state the ticket was sold won't be revealed until a news conference at the lottery headquarters in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.
The cash payout will almost certainly be one of only three to ever top two hundred million dollars, and be paid to a single winner. The record of $224 million was set in August of 2012, when a Michigan ticket matched all the numbers in a Powerball drawing with an annuity value of $337 million. A Rhode Island woman won $210 million in Powerball in February of 2012.
The cash payout advertised before Saturday's drawing was $198 million, but that was when the annuity jackpot was $320 million. The final tally was higher, according to Powerball.com.
The previous New Jersey record was a $258 million Mega Millions jackpot won in September of 2005 by Harold and Helen Lerner of Rutherford in Bergen County.
Two Pennsylvania tickets and another in New Jersey came very close, winning a million dollars for matching the first five numbers.
As a result of the win, Wednesday's jackpot will be worth forty million dollars for the annuity and twenty-five million for the cash.
Rico says it wasn't him, alas.
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