$1M Powerball ticket sold in NJ for weekend drawing

A $1 million Powerball ticket was sold in New Jersey for Saturday's lottery drawing.

It was one of four tickets sold nationwide to match five numbers but not the Power Ball. No one hit the $137 million jackpot, pushing the top prize for Wednesday's drawing to $151 million with a cash option of $90.7 million.

Saturday's winning numbers were: 9-45 -57-58-65. The Power Ball was 9 with a Power Play of 2X.

State lottery officials will disclose where the lucky New Jersey ticket was sold later Monday.

Powerball tickets worth $150K and $50K sold in N.J.

There were also $1 million tickets sold in Puerto Rico and Wisconsin. A ticket purchased in Tennessee is worth $2 million because the winner spent an extra $1 to exercise the Power Play option.

A Powerball ticket costs $2. The odds of hitting the jackpot are 292,201,338 to 1. Players have roughly a 1 in 11,688,053 chance to win the second prize of at least $1 million.

Powerball is played in 44 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The other large multi-state lottery game, Mega Millions, also didn't produce a jackpot winner during its most recent drawing Friday night.

Tuesday's jackpot will be worth $175 million with a cash option of $105 million. There were two second-prize tickets sold -- a $2 million ticket in Illinois and one in Maryland worth $1 million.

Jeff Goldman may be reached at jeff_goldman@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @JeffSGoldman. Find NJ.com on Facebook.

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