Winning Powerball Ticket Sold In Manalapan

MANALAPAN, NJ— If you bought a Powerball ticket in Manalapan recently, we might have some very good news for you: one of three winning tickets was drawn at the Route 9 Wegmans on Wednesday night.

The ticket matched four of the five white balls drawn, so if that ticket is yours, you've just become $50,000 richer.

Overall, three winning tickets from Wednesday's drawing were sold:

• Atlantic County: Cedar Food Market VII, 1125 Arctic Ave., Atlantic City
• Hudson County: Bond Drugs, 371 Central Ave., Jersey City
• Monmouth County: Wegman’s Manalapan, 55 Route 9 South, Manalapan.

Also, two lucky tickets matched all five numbers drawn winning the $168,756 Jersey Cash 5 jackpot from the Wednesday, Nov. 23 drawing. The winning numbers were: 03, 12, 19, 21 and 37 and the XTRA number was: 03. The lucky retailers that sold those winning tickets are:

• Essex County: Family Liquors, 1112 Broad St., Newark
• Hudson County: K & S Delicatessen LLC, 299 Danforth Ave., Jersey City.

In the Saturday Powerball drawing, there was one New Jersey Lottery ticket sold that matched four of the five white balls and the Powerball drawn, winning the $50,000 third-tier prize, according to New Jersey Lottery officials.

“Congratulations to all of the lottery players who purchased winning tickets and to the retailers that sold them,” Hedinger said in a release. “I’d like to remind players to purchase their Powerball tickets with a winning attitude and add Power Play to the ticket purchase. Power Play doubles the second prize from one million dollars to two million dollars and multiplies all of the seven lower prize sets available in the game by the number drawn that evening. The jackpot prize is not multiplied.”

View all New Jersey Lottery game winning numbers and drawings for the Pick-3, Pick-4, Jersey Cash 5, Pick-6, CASH4LIFE and 5 Card Cash games on the Lottery website (www.NJLottery.com) or on the official Lottery Facebook Page.

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