Second place still paid off big for two California lottery players in the second-largest Powerball jackpot drawing in history.
They matched five out of six numbers in Saturday’s $1.787 billion jackpot drawing, just missing the Powerball number. Their tickets, sold at Love’s Travel Stop in the Kern County community of Tehachapi and a Circle K in Dublin in Alameda County, are worth more than $1.5 million apiece.
The tickets were two of 1.5 million winning tickets in California. Nationwide, there were 18 tickets sold with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number
Powerball tickets five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, sold in other states are worth $1 million or $2 million, but payout amounts in California are on a pari-mutuel basis under state law and determined by sales
and the number of winners.
There were two jackpot winners in the Saturday drawing. One ticket was sold in Missouri and another in Texas. The players have the option of receiving an annuitized prize of $893.5 million or a lump sum payment of $410.3 million.
Both prize options are before taxes. If a winner selects the annuity option, they will receive one immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments that increase by 5% each year.
The jackpot was the second-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history, just behind the $2.04 billion jackpot for the Nov. 7, 2022 Powerball drawing with the winning ticket sold at gas station in Pasadena.
The drawing was the first with a ticket sold with all six numbers since May 31, when a ticket worth $207 million was sold at a convenience store in Arleta.
The numbers drawn Saturday night were 11, 23, 44, 61, 62 and the Powerball number was 17.
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 jackpot for Monday’s drawing will be $20 million.
Jonathan Lloyd
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