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3 Tickets Held Jackpot Numbers for the $1.6 Billion Powerball Jackpot on Jan. 13, 2016

Was a new world-record set tonight?

Now that we know the winning Powerball numbers from tonight’s highly-anticipated drawing, the next logical question is... so who won?!

Though it’s safe to say anyone who bought a ticket would be thrilled to win the estimated $1,586,400,000 jackpot, not everyone can.

Three winning jackpot tickets were sold, according to lottery officials who say tickets in Florida, Tennessee and California had all six winning numbers including the Powerball.

In California, the winning ticket sold in Chino Hills.

And if no one happened to have won? Lottery officials said that would have been extremely unlikely, but the $1.5 billion jackpot would have rolled once again, to Saturday, Jan. 16. The estimated pot for that jackpot would have been some $2 billion, lottery officials tell Patch.

HOW TO WIN POWERBALL:

The odds of winning the big prize are 1 in 292,201,338, according to MarketWatch. The service points out that the chances of being struck by lightning in any given year are 1 in 700,000.

According to the official Powerball website, the jackpot is won by matching all five white balls, in any order, and the red Powerball. But if you miss that coveted Powerball, you can still win a cool million dollars.

There are seven other ways you can win, too.

  • Match all five numbers and no Powerball = $1 million
  • Match four numbers and the Powerball = $10,000
  • Match four numbers and no Powerball = $100
  • Match three numbers and the Powerball = $100
  • Match three numbers and no Powerball = $7
  • Match two numbers and the Powerball = $7
  • Match one number and the Powerball = $4
  • Match just the Powerball number = $4

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