Quirky Powerball Drawing Just Made 18 Millionaires In New Jersey

Sometimes it pays to leave yourself in the hands of fate. That’s how 18 lottery players just became millionaires in New Jersey after a quirky Powerball drawing this week, officials say.

Two tickets sold in Kansas and Indiana split the $143.4 million jackpot on Wednesday, April 29. But the Garden State also saw some big wins – four tickets worth $2 million each, and 14 worth $1 million.

New Jersey wasn’t the only state that saw a bunch of new millionaires as a result of Wednesday’s drawing. According to the Multi-State Lottery Association, which operates Powerball, 91 players nationwide won $1 million or more.

The unusually high number of winners appears to have resulted from many players selecting their numbers from a single vertical column on their play slips, a pattern that exists across multiple state lottery play slips, officials said (see an example of a ticket below).

The winning numbers were 03, 19, 35, 51, and 67. The Powerball was 15, and the multiplier was 02.

Here’s where the Garden State tickets were sold, New Jersey Lottery officials said:

$2 Million Winners

• Brigantine – Beach Tobacco Cigar and Convenience, 3106 Brigantine Boulevard
• Rivervale – Convenience Food Stop, 184 Rivervale Road
• Somerdale – Walmart, 1 Coopertown Boulevard
• Union City – Primo Deli and Grocery, 2600 Summit Avenue

$1 Million Winners

• Elizabeth – Express Deli Food Market, 900 Grove Street
• Hasbrouck Heights – Exxon, 24 Route 17 North
• Holmdel – 7-Eleven, 2145 Route 35
• Linden – Quick Mart, 701 Knopf Street
• Millville – Clark’s Liquors, 612 West Main Street
• Neptune – Quick Check, 3607 Highway 33
• Newark – AJ Seabra Supermarket, 62-66 Pacific Street
• Old Bridge – Jersey Spirit and Wine, 2285 U.S. 9
• Orange – Quick Stop, 323 Main Street
• Paterson – Dorta Liquors, 353 21^st Avenue
• Teaneck – 7-Eleven, 107 Cedar Lane
• Toms River – Exxon, 13 Route 37 East
• West Milford – Vault Liquors, 1618 Union Valley Road
• Woodbridge – Outerbridge Liquor, 306 U.S. Highway 9 North

The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292 million. The odds of matching 5 of 69 white balls without also matching the Powerball are approximately 1 in 11 million, the same as drawing 01, 02, 03, 04 and 05.

In 2025, the New Jersey Lottery had 13 second-tier Powerball winners, but this year there was only one before Wednesday’s drawing.

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