LOS ANGELES – There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in the latest drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery, pushing the estimated jackpot for Monday’s drawing to $1.1 billion, the 12th-largest lottery jackpot in American history.
There were seven tickets sold with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number. The ones sold in North Carolina and Pennsylvania are each worth $2 million because the players utilized the Power Play option, where for an additional $1 per play, a ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, is worth $2 million.
The one sold at a liquor store in Sacramento is worth $1,975,554. 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…