$191.1 Million Powerball Jackpot Won in Louisiana - New Jersey Has Two $50,000 Winners
TRENTON (Oct. 26, 2017) – New Jersey Lottery Executive Director Carole Hedinger announced that a Louisiana Lottery ticketholder won the $191.1 million Powerball jackpot from the Wednesday, Oct. 25 drawing. The winning numbers for Wednesday night’s drawing were: 18, 22, 29, 54 and 57. The Red Power Ball was 08, and the Multiplier was 03. The Power Ball jackpot reset to $40,000,000 for the next drawing to be held on Saturday, Oct. 28 at 10:59 pm.
In addition, two New Jersey Lottery tickets were sold that matched the four white balls and the Powerball drawn, winning the $50,000 third prize. The tickets were purchased at the following locations:
- Camden County: 7-Eleven #10918, 200 West Browning Rd., Bellmawr; and
- Morris County: Morris Newstand Inc., 133 Morris St., Morristown.
If those tickets had been purchased with the Power Play Multiplier option, they would have been worth $150,000 each.
In addition to the second and third-tier prizewinning tickets sold, there were 35,253 New Jersey players who took home an estimated $190,360 in prizes ranging from $4 to $300, according to Lottery Executive Director Carole Hedinger.
“Congratulations to all of the lottery players who purchased winning tickets and to the retailers that sold them,” said Hedinger. “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. Midday and evening draws, with the exception of CASH4LIFE and 5 Card Cash, can be seen on WPIX-TV (PIX11) in New York and WPHL-TV (PHL17) in Philadelphia. Powerball and Mega Millions drawings can be seen on WABC-TV stations.
