Two Powerball lottery tickets matching five of six numbers in Saturday’s drawing — but not the red powerball — were sold in California last week, state lottery officials said, and the jackpot grew to $1 billion for Monday’s drawing.
One of the two tickets with five of the six numbers was sold at a liquor store in Pico Rivera, in Southern California. The other was sold at the Mad Dog Cafe in Markleeville, a town of about 200 people south of Lake Tahoe in Northern California. The California Lottery said each ticket was worth $552,641.
Five other players elsewhere also matched five numbers — two in Michigan, one in Maryland, one in Florida and one in Texas.
The grand prize for Saturday in the multi-state game was estimated at $825 million. The next drawing, Monday night, will be for a massive $1 billion, according to a statement by Powerball.
The winning numbers Saturday night were: white balls 19, 31, 40, 46, 57 and the red powerball 23.
The increased jackpot will remain the fifth-largest in U.S. history behind another Powerball prize and three Mega Millions lottery game jackpots. The biggest prize was a $1.586 billion Powerball jackpot won by three ticketholders in 2016.
Although the advertised top prize will be an estimated $1 billion, that is for winners who receive their winnings through an annuity paid over 29 years. Winners almost always opt for cash, which for Monday’s drawing will be an estimated $497.3 million.
Players who missed out on the latest grand prize in the 30-year-old lottery shouldn’t immediately toss away their receipts.
Another 17 tickets won a $150,000 prize while there were 80 winners of $50,000 each. More than 3.8 million tickets won cash prizes totaling above $38 million, Powerball said.
It has been nearly three months since anyone hit all six numbers and took the lottery’s top prize, with a $206.9 million jackpot win in Pennsylvania on Aug. 3. Thanks to Powerball’s long odds of one in 292.2 million, there have now been 37 consecutive draws without a jackpot winner.
Powerball is played in 45 states, as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Associated Press contributed to this report.