Top Powerball ticket sold in California

SACRAMENTO – 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 $86 million.

A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, was sold at a gas station in the Sacramento suburb of Roseville and is worth $470,739, 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.

The numbers drawn Wednesday were 22, 31, 52, 56, 57 and the Powerball number was 15.

The estimated jackpot was $70 million.

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