Powerball lottery: Did you win Saturday's $50M Powerball drawing? Winning numbers, live results (08/24/2019) - NJ.com

The Powerball jackpot for Saturday’s lottery drawing is $50 million with a cash option of $35.7 million.

The winning numbers are: 5, 12, 20, 21, 47. Powerball: 1. Power Play: 2x

The top prize for Wednesday’s drawing reset to $40 million after someone who bought a lucky ticket at a gas station in Merrick, New York hit a $148 million jackpot on Aug. 17.

No one hit Wednesday’s jackpot, but a second prize $1 million ticket was bought in Nebraska. It matched five numbers but not the Powerball

In New Jersey, someone purchased a $50,000 ticket at Kings Food Markets on South Avenue in Garwood. The third-prize ticket matched four numbers plus the Powerball.

Wednesday’s winning numbers were: 12, 21, 22, 29 and 32. The Powerball drawn was 21 with a Power Play of 2x.

The jackpot has been won three other times this year.

On March 27, Manuel Franco, of West Allis, Wisconsin won the $768.4 million prize, the third biggest in U.S. lottery history. On June 1, Charles Jackson Jr., a 66-year-old grandfather from Cumberland County, North Carolina, claimed the $344.6 million Powerball prize. On July 13, someone in Hendersonville, Tennessee hit the $198 million jackpot. A trust claimed the prize for the winner, who opted for the $128.1 million lump sum.

The odds of hitting the Powerball jackpot are 292,201,388 to 1. A player who buys a $2 ticket has about a 1 in 11,688,053 chance to match five numbers and win at least $1 million.

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

In March, Michael J. Weirsky, 54, of Alpha in Warren County hit the $273 million Mega Millions drawing.

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