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$7M Winning Lottery Ticket Sold In Bay Area

The lotto numbers were drawn Wednesday night. Did you or someone you know win?

The winning ticket was sold at a grocery store.
The winning ticket was sold at a grocery store. (Alexander Nguyen/Patch Archive)

SAN LEANDRO, CA — A Powerball ticket sold at the Food Maxx store in San Leandro is worth $7,054,356.

The ticket matched the first five numbers in Wednesday night's drawing, but missed the Powerball. It is the only ticket in California that matched the first five numbers.

What would you do if you won? Would you quit your job? Travel the world? Just quietly go about your life as if nothing happened?

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Here are the winning numbers:

  • 10
  • 12
  • 15
  • 19
  • 56
  • 19 - Powerball

No one won the Powerball jackpot, which will grow to $60 million for Saturday's drawing. Your odds of winning any prize in the drawing are one in 24.9, according to the Powerball website. Powerball is played in 45 states. The only states that do not participate are Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Nevada, and Utah.

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The biggest Powerball jackpot ever was $1.586 billion in January 2016. It was split by winners in California, Florida, and Tennessee.

If you're tempted to buy a ticket for the next drawing, Powerball statistics show that 75 percent of winning tickets over the years had computer-generated numbers.

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