Winning Powerball Ticket Sold in Santa Clara County

Santa Clara County, CA -- A winning Powerball ticket was sold in Santa Clara County, according to California Lottery officials.

The ticket was one of three in California that matched five numbers but missing the Powerball number and are worth $785,065 each, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game.

The jackpot-winning ticket was sold in New Jersey with the estimated jackpot of about $478 million dollars.

The Santa Clara County-winning ticket was sold in Sunnyvale at Liquor & Food Mart, 734 S. Fair Oaks Ave., according to the California Lottery.

The other two tickets were sold at 7-Eleven located at 1100 Redondo Avenue in Long Beach and at the Quality Market on Capitola Avenue in Capitola.

In case the winning ticket was yours, the numbers drawn were 11, 17, 21, 23, 32 and the Powerball number was 5.

The drawing was the 24th 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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