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Powerball ticket worth $50K sold at QuickChek in N.J.
A Powerball ticket worth $50,000 was sold for Monday's lottery drawing at a QuickChek in Middlesex County, lottery officials said.
The winner bought the third-prize ticket at the convenience store on Route 130 in the Dayton section of South Brunswick, matching four numbers plus the Powerball.
It matched four numbers plus the Powerball.
Monday's winning numbers were: 5, 46, 61, 63 and 64. The Powerball drawn was 1 with a Power Play of 3X.
No one across the country hit Monday's $609 million jackpot. Two second-prize, $1 million tickets were purchased — one in Arizona, the other in Texas.
Each matched five numbers but not the Powerball.
Wednesday's jackpot is worth an estimated $643 million with a cash option of $290.6 million.
No one has hit the jackpot since someone in California won a $204.5 million top prize on May 31.
The odds of hitting the Powerball jackpot are more than 292 million to 1. A player who buys a ticket has about a 1 in 11,688,053 chance to match five numbers but not the Powerball and win a second-prize of at least $1 million.
The odds of winning a third prize of at least $50,000 are 913,129 to 1.
Powerball drawings are held each Monday, Wednesday and Saturday in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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