$1 Million, 5-Number Powerball Ticket Sold in Long Beach

By City News Service
There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in tonight's drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery and the estimated jackpot for Saturday's drawing is estimated to grow to $85 million. 

 One ticket each with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, was sold at La Bodega Mexicana in Long Beach and at S & K Liquor in Lawndale - each worth $1,038,240, a California Lottery official announced. 

Another ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, was sold in Illinois and is 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. Two Match 5 Power Play tickets with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number were sold -- one each in Florida and Oklahoma -- and each are worth $2 million. 

 The numbers drawn tonight were 16, 22, 23, 42, 55 and the Powerball number was 32. The estimated jackpot was $70 million. The drawing was the fourth 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.