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BY BOB HOLT
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
The Powerball lottery never seems to go through too many drawings until its jackpot reaches huge numbers.That jackpot has now crossed three figures after no one won the grand prize on Wednesday for the seventh consecutive drawing.
According to the Powerball web site, the estimated annuity jackpot for the Powerball drawing of Saturday, April 19 will be $128 million. The lump sum value, which most people continue to prefer, will be a rather large $74.9 million.
Winning numbers for the Powerball drawing of Wednesday, April 16 were 34, 39, 42, 44, and 59. The Powerball was 8. USA Mega reports that tickets from Georgia and Massachusetts were able to match the first five numbers without having the Powerball to win $1 million.
Locally there were no second or third place winners in the last two Powerball drawings, but players had more success in Jersey Cash 5 games. The New Jersey Lottery web site reported that three tickets split the $468,282 Jersey Cash 5 jackpot of April 12.
Winning tickets were purchased at Lee’s Liquor & Grocery Store in Jersey City of Hudson County, at Freehold Racetrack, in Freehold of Monmouth County, and at Quick Chek of Hopatcong in Sussex County.
But no matter what game you play, you want to play responsibly, check your tickets, and keep them in a safe place. It’s not a bad idea to recheck your tickets. Ask a man from nearby Pennsylvania.
Wendy Hinton of Zhou Grocery in York Pennsylvania sold 25 Quinto tickets to a regular customer who lived nearby on March 13, 2013. The man always bought 20 to 25 tickets a day with the numbers 4-3-4-1-8. Lottery Post reported that according to Hinton, the man must have misread his tickets for that drawing and thrown them in the trash.
His 25 tickets were each worth $50,000, for a grand total of $1.25 million. That money now stays in the Pennsylvania Lottery Fund.
