Powerball winning tickets in SoCal

  LOS ANGELES (CNS) – A ticket with five numbers in last night’s drawing of
the multi-state Powerball lottery, but missing the Powerball number, was sold
at a liquor store in Capistrano Beach and is worth $785,040.
Another ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, was
sold in Nipton in San Bernardino County and is also worth $785,040, the Multi-
State Lottery Association, which conducts the game, announced.
A third ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, was
sold in West Virginia and is worth $1 million.
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. The estimated jackpot
for Saturday’s drawing is expected to grow to $288 million.
The numbers drawn tonight were 2, 24, 31, 57, 66 and the Powerball
number was 18. The estimated jackpot was $257 million.
The drawing was the 17th 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.