4 Powerball tickets worth $50,000 each have been sold in New Jersey as the jackpot reaches $295 million

Four Powerball tickets worth $50,000 each were purchased in New Jersey for Wednesday's lottery drawing.

The third-prize Powerball tickets, each equal to four numbers plus the Powerball, were sold at the following locations:

• Duncan Grocery Store on Duncan Avenue in Jersey City, Hudson County
• 7-Eleven on Lakeside Boulevard in the Landing section of Roxbury, Morris County
• Acme on Lake Street in Midland Park, Bergen County
• 7-Eleven on Fort Dix Street in Wrightstown, Burlington County

No one across the country hit the $274 million Powerball jackpot on Wednesday, bringing the top prize for the next drawing on Saturday to $295 million with a cash option of $147.9 million. Two second-prize tickets worth $1 million each were sold for Wednesday's drawing – in Indiana and Illinois.

Wednesday's winning numbers were: 1, 2, 21, 37 And 43. The Powerball was drawn 21 with a power play by 3X.

In addition, no one won the second jackpot of $10 million on Wednesday. These winning numbers were: 39, 44, 45, 46 And 66. The Double Play number drawn was 13.

The odds of hitting the Powerball jackpot are 292,201,388 to 1. A player who purchases a $2 ticket has about a 1 in 11,688,053 chance of matching five numbers and at least 1 Million $ to win, while the odds of winning a third prize are 913,129 to 1 or at least $50,000.

Powerball drawings take place every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Friday's Mega Millions jackpot is worth an estimated $108 million with a cash option of $53.8 million