Lottery players have just one chance left to win over $300 million before the end of 2018! The last Mega Millions drawing is up for grabs on Friday, Dec. 28th with an estimated jackpot of $348 million ($210.2 million cash value).
New Jersey Lottery Acting Executive Director James Carey announced that a New York Lottery ticketholder won the $298.3 million Powerball jackpot from the Wednesday, Dec. 26th drawing.
The winning numbers for Wednesday night’s drawing were: 05, 25, 38, 52 and 67.The Red Power Ball was 24, and the Multiplier was 02.
In addition, one New Jersey Lottery ticket was sold that matched the four white balls and the Powerball drawn, winning the $50,000 third prize.
That ticket was purchased at 7-Eleven #39162, 19 Franklin Turnpike, Mahwah in Bergen County. If that ticket had been purchased with the Power Play Multiplier option, it would have multiplied the prize to $100,000.
In addition to the third-tier prizewinning tickets sold, there were 37,838 New Jersey players who took home an estimated $184,886 in prizes ranging from $4 to $200, according to Carey.
“Congratulations to all of the lottery players who purchased winning tickets and to the retailers that sold them,” said Carey. “I’d like to remind players to purchase their Powerball tickets with a winning attitude and add Power Play to the ticket purchase. Power Play doubles the second prize from one million dollars to two million dollars and multiplies all of the seven lower prize sets available in the game by the number drawn that evening. The jackpot prize is not multiplied.”
The Powerball jackpot resets to $40,000,000 for the next drawing to be held Saturday, Dec. 29th at 10:59 pm.