Big Money Winning Powerball Tickets Sold In New York

It was a good weekend to be a Powerball player in New York.

While no one claimed the grand prize from Saturday Night's Powerball drawing the New York State Lottery announced that there were two "Big Money" winning tickets sold in the "Empire State".

Each one of those tickets matched four out of five numbers and also matched the Powerball number from Saturday's drawing. Each one of those tickets won the 3rd place prize of $50,000.

Saturday's winning Powerball numbers were: 3-8-40-53-58 with a Powerball of 03.

The holders of those tickets beat some impressive odds as the odds of winning the 3rd place prize with Powerball are 1 in 913,129.

Since no one claimed the grand prize jackpot on Saturday, tonight's jackpot for the Powerball is up to $391 million dollars. The odds of winning the grand prize Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292,201,338.

If you want a slight edge when it comes to winning the Powerball, you might want to play these numbers. Here is a look at the most commonly drawn Powerball numbers since 2012.

Top 5 Most Commonly Drawn Powerball Numbers

These numbers come up most often in the Powerball drawing.

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If you don't want to chance it tonight with the Powerball, tomorrow's Mega Millions jackpot would be a record-breaking one here in New York State.

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Tomorrow's Mega Millions jackpot is up to $563 million dollars which is almost $100 million dollars more than the current record of largest lottery jackpot ever won in New York.

Here is a look at the Top 6 Largest Lottery Jackpots in New York State history.

6. $202 Million Dollars

A group of players who played under an LLC named 1937 Flatbush Ave Dodgers LLC won the Powerball prize on June 1st, 2011.