CHULA VISTA, Calif. (CNS) - A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number in Monday evening's drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery was sold at a La Mesa convenience store and is worth $3,202,599, the California Lottery announced.
According to lottery officials, the ticket was sold at the 7-Eleven at 5746 Amaya Drive.
Tickets with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, sold in other states are worth either $1 million or $2 million, but California law requires major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis.
There were no tickets sold with all six numbers and the estimated jackpot for Wednesday's drawing is expected to grow to $109 million.
The numbers drawn Monday were 15, 20, 33, 36, 43 and the Powerball number was 12. The jackpot was $97 million.
The drawing was the eighth since 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 Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game. 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.
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