Winning Powerball Ticket Sold In SoCal; Jackpot Grows To $1.72B

ORANGE COUNTY, CA — There were no winners of the billion-dollar-plus Powerball jackpot Monday, but there was a lucky ticket, worth a sizeable amount of money, sold in Orange County.

The ticket sold in Lake Forest has five of the winning numbers but is missing the Powerball number. The ticket was sold at a convenience store in Lake Forest and is worth $1,064,543, according to the California Lottery.

The numbers drawn Monday were 16, 34, 46, 55, 67 and the Powerball number was 14. The estimated jackpot was $1.57 billion, the fifth-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history and third-largest in the history of the Powerball game, which began in 1992. There have been two Mega Millions drawings with larger jackpots.

The drawing was the 33rd since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.

There have been no drawings with a ticket sold with all six numbers since July 19 when a ticket with all six numbers worth $1.08 billion was sold at a downtown Los Angeles mini-market, the seventh-largest jackpot in U.S. history.

Powerball tickets with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, sold in other states are worth $1 million or $2 million, but California law requires major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis, meaning they are determined by sales and the number of winners.

The largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history is $2.040 billion for the Nov. 7 Powerball drawing.

A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, sold in Florida is worth $2 million because the player utilized the Power Play option for an additional $1 per play.

Tickets with five numbers but missing the Powerball number were also sold in Indiana, Oregon and Virginia. Each worth $1 million.

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 Powerball game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.

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City News Service contributed to this report.