Three tickets nationally matched five numbers but not the Powerball
A Central Jersey gas station sold the $1 million Powerball ticket purchased in New Jersey for Saturday's drawing.
The lucky winner bought his or her ticket at Raceway on West Pond Road in Woodbridge, state lottery official said Monday.
The ticket contained five numbers but not the Powerball. The winning numbers were 12, 20, 39, 49, 69. The Powerball drawn was 17.
Two other tickets worth $1 million were also sold -- one in Pennsylvania and one in Illinois.
A ticket sold at Krauszer's in Fair Lawn matched four numbers and the Powerball and is worth $50,000.
Wednesday's jackpot will be worth at least $206 million with a cash value of $124.4 million.
The odds of matching five numbers and the Powerball are 292,201,338 to 1. Players have about a 1 in 11,688,053 shot to win at least $1 million.
Powerball is played in 44 states, Washington D.C., the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. A ticket costs $2.
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