A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, in Monday night's multi-state lottery drawing was sold at a donut shop in Anaheim valued at $2,085,363, the California Lottery announced.
Powerball tickets with five numbers, but no Powerball number, sold in other states are worth $1 million or $2 million, but California law requires that large payouts for lottery games be paid out on a staggered basis, meaning they are determined from During sales, the number of winners can be less or more than one million dollars.
Lottery officials said Monday that there were four other tickets sold for five numbers, but they did not include a Powerball ticket. The tickets sold in Colorado and Georgia were each worth $2 million because players used the Power Play option, where a ticket that had five numbers, for an extra $1 per play, but was missing the Powerball number, was worth $2 million.
Those sold in New Hampshire and Pennsylvania are each worth $1 million.
No tickets were sold for all six numbers, bringing the estimated jackpot for Wednesday's drawing to $685 million.
The numbers drawn Monday were 5, 12, 20, 24, 29 and the Powerball number was 4. The jackpot was $660 million.
It was the 30th drawing since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.
The odds of matching all five numbers and a Powerball number are 1 in 292.2 million, according to the Multistate Lottery Association. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24.9.
Powerball is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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