A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, for Saturday evening’s drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery was sold at a gas station in Escondido and is worth $1,532,761, 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.
There were no tickets sold with all six numbers, pushing the estimated jackpot for Monday’s drawing to $203 million.
The numbers drawn Saturday were 27, 28, 36, 48, 49 and the Powerball number was 21. The estimated jackpot was $190 million.
The drawing was the 13th 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, which conducts the game. 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 U.S. Virgin Islands.
Discover more from USA NEWS
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.