A vacation to a cooler climate would make a lot of people feel better about the heat these days. And a nice potential financial windfall may be coming up for someone Wednesday night that just might make that happen.
There was no winner in last Saturday night’s Powerball drawing, so the jackpot has rolled over to $160 million for Wednesday evening. The lump sum payout will be $85.2 million.
The Powerball jackpot will be the highest since June 1st when a group of New York Costco workers won over $200 million. World Lottery News reports that four players matched five balls without the Powerball, and each collecting $250,000. None of them were from New Jersey.
But just a week earlier, our luck was a little better. Lottery.com reported that two l New Jersey players won Powerball’s second prize of $200,000 in the Saturday, July 23 drawing. One ticket was purchased in Camden County, at the One Stop Shoppe in Magnolia, and the other came from Hunterdon County, and was bought at Ringoes Country Deli.
CLICK HERE FOR POWERBALL WINNING NUMBERS
Lottery's Executive Director Carole Hedinger says each store receives a bonus check of $500 for selling the tickets.
Lottery Post reminds us that even if you don’t win, be sure and always check your tickets carefully, because millions of dollars in winning tickets are being allowed to expire every year. A $250,000 Mega Millions second prize expired last week, and on the same night as the $160 million Powerball drawing, a $900,000 winning ticket from Florida is scheduled to expire.
The biggest loser on record came from Connecticut in 1996, when Clarence Jackson from Connecticut turned in his winning ticket three days too late, missing a $5 million jackpot.
POWERBALL WINNING NUMBERS FOR WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2011
(13, 19, 21, 28, 49 and Powerball: 11 x2)
ABC News reported that New Jersey Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson Coleman plans to introduce a bill that will give more people other means of checking their numbers. She wants to bring back live New Jersey lottery drawings on its public access channel, "to continue greater access for people.”
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