Powerball Jackpot Rises to $748M – MyNewsLA.com
The estimated jackpot for Monday evening’s Powerballdrawing is $748 million, the game’s largest since Dec. 24.
There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in the latest drawing of the multi-state lottery.
There were six tickets sold with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, including three in California, one each at gas stations in West Los Angeles and Pleasanton in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area and one at a market in Reedley in Fresno County. They are each worth $809,204, 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.
A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, was sold in Virginia and 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 tickets with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number sold in Maryland and Texas are each worth $1 million, the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game, announced.
The numbers drawn Saturday were 6, 17, 27, 48, 50 and the Powerball number was 5. The estimated jackpot was $707 million.
The drawing was the 39th 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.
The Powerball game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.
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