One lottery ticket sold in New Jersey matched all six numbers in Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing, winning an estimated $847 million jackpot. It’s the tenth-largest prize in the game’s history. The winning numbers were 15, 34, 41, 53, 56, and red Powerball 21, and the winner will choose between the full annuity or an estimated cash value of $363.1 million.
Before you start planning your own beach house, consider the math. The odds of hitting that jackpot were one in 292,201,338. Still, somebody has to win, and this week it was a single ticket in one store up the coast. We don’t yet know who bought it or exactly where it was sold.
Big jackpots like this one are worth a little daydreaming even here on the Suncoast. Would you take the cash and keep it quiet, or spread it out over decades? Tell us your plan in the comments. We’re collecting answers for a future segment, and the most creative one might make the air.
