In Saturday evening’s draw of the multi-state Powerball lottery, no tickets were sold with all six numbers, leading to an estimated jackpot of $1.55 billion for Monday’s drawing. This is the fifth-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.
However, there were 12 tickets sold with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number. One of these tickets, sold at a market in San Francisco, is worth $1,311,695, according to the California Lottery. If this ticket had been sold in a different state, it would have been worth $1 million. But California law requires major lottery winnings to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis, which can be both less or more than $1 million.
The tickets with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, sold in Iowa and Maine are each worth $2 million. This is because the players utilized the Power Play option, where for an additional $1 per play, a ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, is worth $2 million.
Other tickets with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, were sold in Massachusetts, Texas, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Each of these tickets is worth $1 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association.
The numbers drawn in Saturday night’s draw were 47, 54, 57, 60, 65, and the Powerball number was 19. The estimated jackpot for that draw was $1.4 billion, making it the fifth-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.
This draw was the 32nd since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold. The most recent grand prize winner in the Powerball game was on July 19, when a ticket with all six numbers worth $1.08 billion was sold at a downtown Los Angeles mini-market.
Both Saturday and Monday’s jackpots are the third-largest in the history of the Powerball game, which began in 1992. There have been two Mega Millions drawings with larger jackpots.
The odds of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number are 1 in 292.2 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24.9.
The Powerball game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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