ANAHEIM, Calif. (CNS) — A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, in Saturday evening’s drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery, was sold at a convenience store in Anaheim and is worth $3,181,602, the California Lottery announced.
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.
There were no tickets sold with all six numbers, pushing the estimated jackpot for Monday’s drawing to $88 million.
The numbers drawn Saturday were 19, 36, 37, 42, 59 and the Powerball number was 19. The jackpot was $77 million.
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The drawing was the fifth 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.
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