Jackpot-winning Powerball ticket sold in Trenton, New Jersey
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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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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