Winning Powerball Ticket Sold In Escondido

ESCONDIDO, CA — A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, for Saturday evening's drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery was sold at a gas station in Escondido and is worth $1,532,761, 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.

There were no tickets sold with all six numbers, pushing the estimated jackpot for Monday's drawing to $203 million.

The numbers drawn Saturday were 27, 28, 36, 48, 49 and the Powerball number was 21. The estimated jackpot was $190 million.

The drawing was the 13th 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.

City News Service