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Powerball Ticket Sold in Long Beach Matches Five of Six Numbers

By City News Service

There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in Wednesday’s drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery and the estimated jackpot for Saturday’s drawing is estimated to grow to $60 million.

A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number was sold at Dick’s Palm Tree Liquor, 3014 N Studebaker Rd., in Long Beach and is worth $369,978, according to the California Lottery.

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Two other tickets — one each sold in South Carolina and Virginia — also had five numbers, but missed the Powerball number and are each worth $1 million, the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game, announced.

California law requires major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis.

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The numbers drawn Wednesday were 4, 11, 17, 43, 51 and the Powerball number was 20. The estimated jackpot was $50 million.

The drawing was the second 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 175,223,510, according to the Powerball website. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 31.85.

The Powerball game is played in 43 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.


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