Winning Powerball ticket sold in NH; 3 CA players to split $2.4M
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (FOX 11/ CNS) - There was one ticket sold in New Hampshire with all six numbers in Saturday night's drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery and the estimated jackpot for Wednesday's drawing will be $40 million.
Three tickets with five numbers -- but missing the Powerball number -- were sold in California. Each is worth $785,065, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game.
The numbers drawn Saturday night were 11, 17, 21, 23, 32 and the Powerball number was 5. The estimated jackpot was about $478 million.
The drawing was the 24th since the last time 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 Powerball website.
The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24.87.
The Powerball game is played in 44 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.