Workers at one New Jersey restaurant cried tears of joy and shouted — one even quit his job — after they matched winning Powerball numbers with a lottery ticket they’d purchased for an office pool.
Unfortunately for them, they didn’t realize they had read off the wrong day’s winning numbers.
Video from Grissini’s Restaurant in Englewood Cliffs shows servers, cooks and bartenders celebrating after reading off Wednesday’s winning numbers with one of the tickets they bought for Saturday night’s $900 million drawing.
Their ticket, which was purchased Saturday and included numbers 2, 11, 47, 62, 63 and a Powerball of 17, was an exact match for Wednesday’s $528 million prize. No one won in Wednesday’s drawing, which prompted the historic $900 million jackpot that later swelled to $1.5 billion after Saturday’s drawing.
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