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Second-Prize Winning Powerball Ticket Sold in Port Jefferson
$564 million multi-state lottery fifth largest in U.S. history.
Two Suffolk County businesses sold second-prize winning tickets in Wednesday’s $564 million multi-state Powerball drawing.
A 7-Eleven store at 408 Route 112 in Port Jefferson Station and 57 Shell Station at 1331 Motor Parkway in Hauppauge were among four second-place tickets sold in New York.
The three winning tickets were sold in North Carolina, Texas and Puerto Rico, matching the numbers 25, 11, 54, 13 and 39 and a Powerball of 19. The four tickets sold in New York matched five numbers but didn’t hit the Powerball and are worth $1 million apiece, according to lottery officials.
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The jackpot is the fifth largest prize in U.S. history of multistate drawings, following the fourth largest pot that climbed to $590.5 million in 2013. The odds of winning are at 175 million to one, experts said. Powerball is played in 44 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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