Big Money Winning Powerball Tickets Sold In New York
It was a good weekend to be a Powerball player in New York.
While no one claimed the grand prize from Saturday Night's Powerball drawing the New York State Lottery announced that there were two "Big Money" winning tickets sold in the "Empire State".
Each one of those tickets matched four out of five numbers and also matched the Powerball number from Saturday's drawing. Each one of those tickets won the 3rd place prize of $50,000.
Saturday's winning Powerball numbers were: 3-8-40-53-58 with a Powerball of 03.
The holders of those tickets beat some impressive odds as the odds of winning the 3rd place prize with Powerball are 1 in 913,129.
Since no one claimed the grand prize jackpot on Saturday, tonight's jackpot for the Powerball is up to $391 million dollars. The odds of winning the grand prize Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292,201,338.
If you want a slight edge when it comes to winning the Powerball, you might want to play these numbers. Here is a look at the most commonly drawn Powerball numbers since 2012.
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If you don't want to chance it tonight with the Powerball, tomorrow's Mega Millions jackpot would be a record-breaking one here in New York State.
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Tomorrow's Mega Millions jackpot is up to $563 million dollars which is almost $100 million dollars more than the current record of largest lottery jackpot ever won in New York.
Here is a look at the Top 6 Largest Lottery Jackpots in New York State history.
6. $202 Million Dollars
A group of players who played under an LLC named 1937 Flatbush Ave Dodgers LLC won the Powerball prize on June 1st, 2011.
5.$208 Million Dollars
Daniel Bruckner claimed the Mega Millions jackpot winning just a shade over $200 million dollars in December of 2011.
4. $319 Million Dollars
Seven co-workers from Albany pulled their money and had the winning ticket for the Mega Millions. They took home $319 million dollars in 2011.
3. $326 Million Dollars
Harold Diamond held the record for the largest lottery jackpot in New York for seven years. He took home the Mega Millions jackpot in 2014.
2. $432 Million Dollars
This winning Mega Millions ticket was sold in September of 2021. The NY Lottery does not know who owns the tickets.
1. $476 Million Dollars
Johnnie Taylor took home the jackpot from the Mega Millions drawing in April of 2023.
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