PARSIPPANY — A winning Powerball ticket was purchased in Lake Parsippany.
The $1,000,000 winning ticket was sold at the Lake Parsippany General Store, 171 Kingston Road, according to New Jersey Lottery Officials. If the ticket had been purchased with Powerplay, it would have been worth $2,000,000.
The five matching balls in Saturday night’s drawing were 10, 11, 21, 22, and 53. The red Power Ball number, which the Parsippany winner did not match, was 18.
Morris County had another winner with a third-prize winning ticket worth $50,000 sold at the Quick Check on Route 206, Chester.
With no jackpot winner after Saturday’s drawing, the Power Ball game swells to $292,000,000. No one has hit the Power Ball jackpot since its record payout of $1.6 billion in January.
Since its inception in 1970, the New Jersey Lottery (NJLottery.com) has contributed nearly $24 billion to the State in support of education and institutions. In Fiscal Year 2015, the Lottery’s contribution was more than $960 million. Among its beneficiaries are: veterans homes, colleges and universities, school nutrition programs, homes for the developmentally disabled, psychiatric hospitals, higher education scholarship programs and the Marie Katzenbach School for the Deaf.
