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The jackpot for Saturday night's Powerball drawing was originally estimated at $320 million, then grew to $338 million, one of the largest Powerball jackpots in the history of the game.

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The jackpot for Saturday night's Powerball drawing was originally estimated at $320 million, then grew to $338 million, one of the largest Powerball jackpots in the history of the game.

Someone in New Jersey this morning could be holding a tiny piece of paper worth a massive amount of money: $338 million.

One winning ticket was sold for Saturday night's huge Powerball jackpot, and it was purchased somewhere in the Garden State, according to the official Powerball website.

Which county, which town and which store remains a mystery and the New Jersey Lottery will release details on Monday, the Associated Press reports.

One lottery player in Iowa won $2 million in Saturday's drawing, and lottery players in 11 other states won $1 million for matching five of the six winning numbers: Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Virginia, the Powerball website reported this morning.

These were the winning numbers drawn at 11 p.m. Saturday: 17, 29, 31, 52 and 53. The Powerball was 31.

The jackpot was initially estimated at $320 million and later climbed to $338.3 million. The cash option was worth at least $198.3 million, making this the sixth-highest ever jackpot in the 21-year history of the interstate lottery game.

The biggest previous jackpot this year was a $217 million haul, which an airport traveler in the Richmond, Va., area won on Feb. 6.

Last year, the Powerball broke all previous records when a November jackpot soared to $588 million. That hefty sum was split between two tickets sold in Missouri and Arizona.

The Associated Press and Star-Ledger staff writer Tom Wright-Piersanti contributed to this report.

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