Two “Big Money” Powerball Tickets In New York

Saturday's Powerball drawing turned out to be a lucky one for a couple of lottery players in New York State.

The New York State Lottery announced that there were two "Big Money" winning tickets sold in New York State from last night's Powerball drawing.

Those two tickets matched four out of five numbers and also had the Powerball number to win the third-place prize of $50,000.

There was one grand prize winning ticket sold as well from Saturday's Powerball drawing. That ticket matched all five numbers and had the Powerball number to win the $526 million dollar jackpot.

This was the first grand prize Powerball winner since January of this year.

Saturday's Winning Powerball numbers were 7-11-21-53-61 with a Powerball number of 02.

The jackpot for the next Powerball drawing will reset to $20 million dollars.

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Speaking of jackpots, here is a look at the largest jackpots ever won in America.

#5 - $1.537 billion dollars.

This jackpot was won by a person in South Carolina in 2018.

#4 - $1.5864 billion dollars

This jackpot was split between three winning tickets and was the first jackpot that reached over $1 billion dollars.

#3 - $$1.602 billion dollars

One winning ticket was sold in Florida for this 2023 jackpot.

#2 - 1.765 billion dollars

Only one winning ticket for this 2023 drawing was sold in California

#1 - $2.04 billion dollars

This is the only lottery jackpot to ever reach over $2 billion dollars. One winning ticket was sold in California. The take home cash value of this drawing was $997 million dollars.

The Powerball is drawn every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday night at 10:59 pm.