A ticket with all six numbers in Wednesday evening’s multi-state Powerball lottery was sold in Arizona and the player will have the choice between receiving the $454 million jackpot in 30 graduated payments over 29 years or a lump sum payment of $271.9 million.
The numbers drawn Wednesday were 11, 36, 61, 62, 68 and the Powerball number was 4.
The drawing was the 30th since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.
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A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, was sold in Indiana and is worth $1 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game.
The odds of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number is 1 in about 293 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24.87.
The Powerball game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.
The jackpot for Saturday’s drawing will be $20 million.