The winning ticket in Saturday's $429.6 million Powerball drawing was sold at a 7-Eleven in Trenton, New Jersey.
State lottery officials say it is the seventh-largest Powerball jackpot in history. The winner hasn't come forward yet, but the owner of the 7-Eleven, Andrea Shin, told ABC News she is "happy that it was somebody that's close." The odds of winning are one in 292.2 million, and the jackpot will reset to $40 million for Wednesday's drawing. The winning numbers from Saturday are 25, 66, 44, 5, and 26. The Powerball was 9.
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