A 15th consecutive Powerball drawing took place Wednesday night without a jackpot winning ticket being sold across the nation.
The $255 million drawing produced three second-prize winners, though none of those tickets were sold in New Jersey.
Saturday’s jackpot will be worth at least $285 million with a cash option of $172.5 million.
Wednesday’s winning numbers were 14, 20, 42, 49, 66. The Powerball drawn was 5.
The second-prize tickets were purchased in California, Georgia and Pennsylvania. The California ticket is worth $2,120,302 while the two others carry a $1 million prize.
No one has hit the jackpot since Dec. 17 when a Pennsylvania couple who bought a ticket in Delaware won a $121.6 million drawing.
Powerball is played in 44 states, Washington D.C., the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The odds of a ticket hitting the jackpot are about 292 million to 1.
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