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Winning $338 Million Powerball Ticket Bought In New Jersey

HOBOKEN, N.J.  (CBSNewYork/AP) - A single ticket sold in New Jersey matched all six numbers in Saturday night's drawing for the $338.3 million Powerball jackpot, lottery officials said. It was the 13th drawing held in the days since a Virginia man won a $217 million jackpot Feb. 6.

Thirteen other tickets worth $1 million each matched all but the final Powerball number on Saturday night. Those tickets were sold in New Jersey and 10 other states. Lottery officials said there was also one Power Play Match 5 winner in Iowa.

The New Jersey Lottery said Sunday that details about the winning ticket would be released Monday, declining to reveal where it had been purchased and whether anyone had immediately come forward. It was the sixth largest jackpot in history.

Some patrons at a Hoboken diner told WCBS 880's Monica Miller what they'd do with the winnings.

"I would first off buy a tiny house in Hawaii, second off, buy a tiny house in Tahoe, California," one woman told Miller.

Winning $338 Million Powerball Ticket Bought In New Jersey

"Send my grandparents on any vacation they ever wanted because they've always helped me out financially," said another New Jersey woman.

The numbers drawn were 17, 29, 31, 52, 53 and Powerball 31. A lump sum payout would be $221 million.

1010 WINS' Gene Michaels found a Powerball winner in New Jersey on Sunday morning.

"I got Powerball and one number and that was it," a woman told Michaels. Her total winnings? "Four dollars," she said.

Lottery officials said the 13 tickets worth $1 million apiece - matching the first five numbers but missing the Powerball - were sold in Arizona, Florida (2), Illinois, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania (2), South Carolina and Virginia.

Winning $338 Million Powerball Ticket Bought In New Jersey

Powerball said on its website that the grand prize jackpot has now been reset to an estimated $40 million or a lump sum cash amount estimated at $25 million for Wednesday's next drawing.

No one had won the Powerball jackpot since early February, when Dave Honeywell in Virginia bought the winning ticket and elected a cash lump sum for his $217 million jackpot.

The largest Powerball jackpot ever came in at $587.5 million in November. The winning numbers were picked on two different tickets - one by a couple in Missouri and the other by an Arizona man - and the jackpot was split.

Nebraska still holds the record for the largest Powerball jackpot won on a single ticket - $365 million. That jackpot was won by eight workers at a Lincoln, Neb., meatpacking plant in February 2006.

Powerball is played in 42 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The chance of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number is about 1 in 175 million.

Powerball said on its website that the game is played every Wednesday and Saturday night when five white balls are drawn from a drum of 59 balls and one red ball is picked from a drum with 35 red balls. It added that winners of the Powerball jackpot can elect to be paid out over 29 years at a percentage set by the game's rules - or in a lump sum cash payment.

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