Powerball Winning Ticket Sold in San Juan Capistrano Beach Store

San Juan Capistrano, CA--The Silverado Liquor Junior Market in Capistrano Beach, sold a winning Powerball ticket last night. The ticket, with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, in the multi-state Powerball lottery is worth $785,040.

Another ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, was sold in Nipton in San Bernardino County and is also worth $785,040, the Multi- State Lottery Association, which conducts the game, announced.

A third ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, was sold in West Virginia and is worth $1 million.

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

There were no tickets sold with all six numbers. The estimated jackpot for Saturday's drawing is expected to grow to $288 million.

The numbers drawn tonight were 2, 24, 31, 57, 66 and the Powerball number was 18. The estimated jackpot was $257 million.

The drawing was the 17th 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 about 293 million, according to the Powerball website. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24.87.

The Powerball game is played in 44 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.

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