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There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in the latest drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery, pushing the estimated jackpot for Saturday’s drawing to $820 million, the 16th-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history.
There were three tickets sold with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, including one sold at a liquor store in South Los Angeles, which is worth $255,789, the California Lottery announced.
While tickets with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, sold in other states are worth $1 million or $2 million, California law requires major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis, meaning they are determined by sales and the number of winners.
One ticket each with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, was sold in Kentucky and Florida.
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The ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, sold in Kentucky is worth $2 million because the player 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.
The ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, sold in Florida is worth $1 million.
The numbers drawn Wednesday were 1, 14, 20, 46, 51 and the Powerball number was 26. The estimated jackpot was $779 million, the 17th-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.
The jackpot for Wednesday’s drawing was the eighth-largest in the history of the Powerball game which began in 1992. There have been nine larger jackpots for the Mega Millions game, which began in 1996 as The Big Game and was given the new name Mega Millions in 2002.
The drawing was the 37th since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.
The odds of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number is 1 in 292.2 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24.9.
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