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A ticket with all six numbers in Thursday evening’s Powerball drawing was sold in Ohio and the purchaser has the option of receiving the $139 million jackpot in 30 installments or a $66.5 million lump sum payment before federal taxes.

The numbers drawn Wednesday were 2, 26, 33, 55, 57 and Powerball number was 22.

The drawing was the 10th since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.

There were three tickets sold with five numbers but missing the Powerball number, including one each at liquor store in Sanger and a gas station in Forestville. They are each worth $397,355.

Powerball tickets with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, sold in other states are worth $1 million or $2 million, but 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 and can be less or more than $1 million.

The ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, sold in Pennsylvania is wroth $1 million.

The odds of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number is 1 in 292.2 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association. 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.

The jackpot for Saturday’s drawing will be $20 million.

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