Winning Powerball Ticket Sold At Toms River Convenience Store
A winning Powerball ticket worth 50 thousand dollars was sold at the convenience store attached to the Singin Oil gas station on Lakewood Road, this past Monday. The ticket matched four numbers in the Powerball drawing Monday night.
The Winning Powerball Ticket Numbers
The winning numbers for the Monday night Powerball were 5 – 14 – 29 – 38 – 66, and the Powerball number was 1. While no one won the estimated 48 million dollar Powerball Jackpot, six other tickets besides the one in Toms River also won 50 thousand dollars.
This is only the most recent winner in our neck of the woods. You may remember back in March someone won the massive Mega Millions billion-dollar drawing with a ticket purchased at the Shoprite of Neptune. Meanwhile, back late last year, someone from Lanoka Harbor took home a cool million dollars in the Mega Millions drawing on December 20th. That person matched the 5 white balls and was only missing the Mega Ball for the full jackpot.
About Powerball And Mega Millions
According to the New Jersey Lottery, in Powerball the winning numbers are made up of five “white balls” from a matrix of 69 and one “Powerball” from a matrix of 26, resulting in jackpot odds of 1 in 292,201,338 per play. Each play costs two dollars, but players in some states can add Power Play, which allows players to increase the payout of their winning numbers, or Double Play, which allows players to use their numbers in a second, concurrent drawing with a different prize pool, each for an additional dollar. The official cutoff for ticket sales is 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time; some lotteries cut off sales earlier. Powerball’s minimum jackpot starts at $20 million annuity.
Powerball jackpot winners have the choice of taking the annuity or lump sum cash prize. The annuity is paid in 30 “graduated installments” over 29 years with each annuity payment increasing 5% annually. whereas the lump sum payment, with a cash value of about half of the advertised jackpot, is paid all at once.
Meanwhile, in Mega Millions, originally known as The Big Game, the minimum Mega Millions advertised jackpot is $20 million, paid in 30 graduated yearly installments, increasing 5% each year (unless the cash option is chosen). The jackpot increases when no top-prize winner results.
