$1 million Powerball ticket sold at 7-Eleven store in Lake Forest
There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery, pushing the estimated jackpot for Wednesday's drawing to $1.73 billion, the second-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.
A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, was sold at a convenience store in Lake Forest and is worth $1,064,543, the California Lottery reported.
Powerball tickets with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, sold in other states are worth $1 million or $2 million, but 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 ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, sold in Florida 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.
One ticket each with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, sold in Indiana, Oregon and Virginia are each worth $1 million.
The numbers drawn Monday were 16, 34, 46, 55, 67 and the Powerball number was 14. The estimated jackpot was $1.57 billion, the fifth-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history and third-largest in the history of the Powerball game, which began in 1992. There have been two Mega Millions drawings with larger jackpots.
The drawing was the 33rd since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.
There have been no drawings with a ticket sold with all six numbers since July 19 when a ticket with all six numbers worth $1.08 billion was sold at a downtown Los Angeles mini-market.
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.
