No tickets were sold with all six numbers in the latest drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery, pushing the estimated jackpot for Saturday’s drawing to $306 million.
A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, was sold at a doughnut shop in Lomita and is worth $892,899, according to the California Lottery.
The ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, sold in Washington state is worth $1 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game.
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 and can be less or more than $1 million.
The numbers drawn Wednesday were 1, 4, 45, 47, 67 and the Powerball number was 18. The jackpot was $285 million.
The drawing was the 19th 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.
–City News Service