A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, in Monday evening’s drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery was sold at a gas station in Spring Valley and is worth $222,615, the California Lottery announced.
Another ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, was sold in New Jersey and is worth $1 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game
Tickets with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, sold in other states are worth either $1 million or $2 million, but California law requires major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis, which can be both less and more than $1 million.
There were no tickets sold with all six numbers, pushing the estimated jackpot for Wednesday’s drawing to $41 million.
The numbers drawn Monday were 3, 4, 12, 28, 49 and the Powerball number was 25. The jackpot was $28 million.
The drawing was the second since 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.
