A $206 million Powerball jackpot drawing will be held Wednesday night.
It will take place at 10:59 p.m. and be televised on WABC-7 in the New York City area and WPVI-6 near Philadelphia.
NJ.com will publish the winning numbers immediately after the drawing is held.
On Saturday, a ticket sold at Woodbridge gas station matched five numbers. The truck driver who made the purchase won $1 million. Two other $1 million tickets were sold — one in Illinois and one in Pennsylvania.
In addition to the $1 million New Jersey ticket, one matched four numbers and the Powerball and is worth $50,000. It was bought at Krauszer’s in Fair Lawn.
No one has hit the jackpot since Dec. 17. That evening, a Pennsylvania couple who purchased their ticket in Delaware won the $121.6 million prize. Delaware allows lottery winners to remain anonymous.
The husband told officials he’s been buying tickets since the Delaware Lottery launched in 1975. They chose the cash option and wound up winning $72.5 million before taxes.
The jackpot for the twice-weekly drawing has rolled over 12 times since then.
Last year ended with seven Powerball jackpots being won, down from 12 in 2015.
One of those was the record $1.58 billion prize shared by winners in Tennessee, California and Florida on Jan. 13. Another was a $429.6 million windfall shared by a Trenton woman and her seven adult children on May 7.
The odds of a $2 ticket hitting the jackpot are more than 292 million to 1. It’s roughly a 11,688,053 to 1 shot to match five numbers but not the Powerball.
Powerball is played in 44 states, Washington, D.C., the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
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