Another mega jackpot has New Jersey dreaming

🔴 Powerball grows once more
💲 Might be largest jackpot ever received in New Jersey
💰 Mega jackpots have gotten widespread

If somebody from New Jersey wins the Powerball jackpot, they won’t solely turn out to be multi-millionaires, they’ll make historical past.

The biggest jackpot ever received in New Jersey was claimed in April of 2022. In keeping with the New Jersey Lottery, a $331 million Large Recreation prize was claimed by Jorge and Joanne Lopes.

Even when the profitable ticket is offered in New Jersey for the Powerball jackpot, we would by no means know who purchased it. There will likely be no presentation of an outsized examine, as a result of New Jersey now permits you to stay nameless if you happen to win.

The final time anybody received the Powerball jackpot was Saturday, November 19, 2022. It has been rising ever since.

Saturday’s drawing will likely be for a prime prize of $700 million. The money possibility is $375.7 million, earlier than taxes.

All these large jackpots have turn out to be extra widespread with the recognition of Powerball and Mega Hundreds of thousands. Each lotteries are performed in a number of states, permitting an enormous pool of cash to be provided for prime prizes.

In January, one profitable ticket was offered in Maine for a $1.35 billion Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpot.

Maine, like New Jersey, permits lottery winners to stay nameless.

Eric Scott is the senior political director and anchor for New Jersey 101.5. You may attain him at eric.scott@townsquaremedia.com

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