Big bucks: Wednesday’s Powerball drawing to hit jaw-dropping $1.25 billion

California lottery tickets Photo by Alexander Nguyen Times of San Diego No ticket matched all six numbers in the latest multi-state Powerball drawing boosting the estimated jackpot for Wednesday s draw to billion the th-largest lottery jackpot in U S history A ticket with five numbers but missing the Powerball number was sold at a domain in Salinas and is worth the California Lottery communicated While tickets with five numbers but missing the Powerball number sold in other states are worth million or million 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 The ticket with five numbers but missing the Powerball number sold in Arizona is worth million according to the Multi-State Lottery Association which conducts the event The numbers drawn Monday were and the Powerball number was The jackpots for both Monday and Wednesday s drawings are the sixth-largest in the history of the Powerball encounter which began in There have been six larger jackpots for the Mega Millions challenge which began in as The Big Meeting and was given the new name Mega Millions in The drawing was the nd since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold A ticket with all six numbers hasn t been sold since Sept when one ticket each with all six numbers was sold in Missouri and Texas when the jackpot had reached billion the second-largest lottery jackpot in U S history The odds of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number is in million according to the Multi-State Lottery Association The overall chance of winning a prize is in The Powerball championship is played in states the District of Columbia Puerto Rico and U S Virgin Islands City News Provision contributed to this article