LAKESIDE, Calif. (CNS) – A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, in Saturday evening’s drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery was sold at a gas station/convenience store in the unincorporated community of Lakeside, and is worth $2,259,918.
The winning ticket was purchased at Americo Gas at 12402 Woodside Avenue.
While tickets with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number sold in other states are worth $1 million or $2 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, according to the California Lottery…