Three Powerball jackpot winners – but none in New Jersey

Celebratory crowds gathered at a 7-Eleven outside Los Angeles Wednesday night after California Lottery officials said one of three winning Powerball tickets was sold at the store.

The winners of the world-record jackpot overcame odds of 1 in 292.2 million to land on the numbers drawn, 4-8-19-27-34 and Powerball 10.

The California victor was purchased at a 7-Eleven in Chino Hills, Calif. Details on where the winning tickets were purchased in Florida and Tennessee had not been released early Thursday morning.

The store and its surrounding strip mall immediately became a wildly popular gathering spot in the usually quiet Los Angeles suburb of 75,000 people.

The Florida Lottery tweeted that they had 11 $1 million winners and a $2 million victor in addition to producing one of the three jackpot winners.

Since the jackpot started at $40 million in November 2015, there were 19 consecutive Powerball drawings with no announcement of a victor, until Wednesday.

With no victor, the pot rolled over again and again – 20 times in all, swelling to $500 million last week and then $900 million in Saturday’s drawing, and then to $1.586 billion. Florida lottery officials said the winning ticket for that state was sold at a grocery store in Melbourne Beach.

Players can also check their tickets and refer to a chart on the official Powerball website for winnings ranging from $4 to $50,000.

“If I win, I’ll give it all away to poor people”, said NY restaurant deliveryman Osman Gamie, 43, after buying a dozen of the $2 tickets at a midtown Manhattan grocery.

This is the second Powerball jackpot victor in Tennessee in a row.

If there is just a single victor, and they choose to take the cash prize instead of an annual payout stretched out over 29 years, they would receive a $930 million lump sum.

While no one in SC or North Carolina won the record-setting Powerball Jackpot Wednesday, lesser-winning tickets were sold in each state.

The big-time winners were sold in two of the luckiest states in the US, in terms of total winners.