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The Pasadena Star-News | Tue 09/02 09:51am PST | City News Service
A lucky Powerball player who bought a ticket in Sherman Oaks will be $1.4 million richer after matching five numbers in Monday’s drawing, but the lack of a jackpot winner across the country is sending the lottery game’s top prize into the financial stratosphere.
After no tickets with all six numbers were sold for Monday’s Powerball drawing, the ninth-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history, $1.3 billion, will be on the line Wednesday.
The numbers drawn Monday were 8, 23, 25, 40, 53, and the Powerball number was 5. The jackpot was $1.1 billion, the 11th-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.
There were 12 tickets matching five numbers but missing the Powerball number, including one sold at a gasoline station in Sherman Oaks that is worth $1,378,451, the California Lottery announced.
That ticket was sold at the 76 gas station at 14478 Ventura Blvd. — on the southeast corner at Van Nuys Boulevard.
There hasn’t been a drawing with a grand prize winner since May 31, 40 drawings ago, when a ticket worth $207 million was sold at a convenience store in Arleta.
Powerball tickets matching 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.
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.
Wednesday’s jackpot is the fifth-largest in the history of the Powerball game, which began in 1992. There have been four larger jackpots for the Mega Millions game, which began in 1996 as The Big Game and was given the new name Mega Millions in 2002.
The Powerball game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.