There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in the latest drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery, pushing the estimated jackpot for Monday’s drawing to $1.6 billion, the fifth-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.
There were eight tickets sold with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, including one at a market in Oxnard, which is worth $2,323,527, the California Lottery announced.
While tickets with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, sold in other states are worth $1 million or $2 million, 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 other seven tickets sold with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number — two in Michigan and one each in Florida, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Ohio — are each worth $1 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game.
The numbers drawn Saturday were 4, 5, 28, 52, 69 and the Powerball number was 20. The estimated jackpot was $1.43 billion, the seventh-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history. Saturday’s drawing marked a record 46th without a ticket with all six numbers being drawn.
A ticket with all six numbers hasn’t been sold since Sept. 6, when one ticket each with all six numbers was sold in Missouri and Texas when the jackpot had reached $1.787 billion, the second-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.
Saturday’s jackpot was the fifth-largest in the history of the Powerball game, which began in 1992. There have been two larger jackpots for the Mega Millions game, which began in 1996 as The Big Game and was given the new name Mega Millions in 2002.
Monday’s jackpot is the fourth-largest in the history of the Powerball game. There has been one larger Mega Millions jackpot.
The odds of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number is 1 in 292.2 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game. 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.