Two Powerball players picked all the right numbers in Missouri and Texas on Saturday night, but that doesn’t mean that California was left empty-handed.
Saturday’s Powerball jackpot is the second-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history. The pot ballooned from $1.70 billion to $1.80 billion between Thursday and Friday night. The largest Powerball jackpot in history was won in California on Nov. 7, 2022 for $2.04 billion.
The winning Powerball numbers were 11, 23, 44, 61, 62 and the Powerball was 17.
Powerball jackpot winners were found in Missouri and Texas. Match 5 and Power Play winners in Kansas and Texas will also be receiving $2 million. There were also several Match 5 winners throughout several U.S. states, including two from California.
If a player wins the Powerball jackpot, they can choose between receiving 29 annual payments that increase by 5% each year that would total $1.80 billion or a lump sum payment of $826.4 million.
There was no jackpot winner in California, but there were still around 1.5 million winning tickets. Two Californians earned more than $1.5 million each for guessing the five white ball numbers. The winning tickets were sold at Love’s Travel Shop in Tehachapi and Circle K in Dublin.
On Wednesday, there was no Powerball winner, but there were several winners who got $2 million for getting the Match 5 and Power Play in Michigan, Oregon, Texas and Wyoming. There were also two people in California who won $1 million each for the Match 5 game. Wednesday’s jackpot totaled $1.4 billion or a cash value of $654.3 million.
The next drawing will be on Monday. The jackpot is $20 million or a cash prize of $9.2 million.
The odds of winning one of the prizes are 1 in 24.9, but those chances slim down to 1 in 292.2 million for the jackpot.