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Are You Holding The $164K Lottery Ticket Sold In LA County?
A ticket with five winning numbers but missing the Powerball number was sold at a market in Los Angeles County.

LOS ANGELES, CA — A Powerball lottery ticket matching five numbers but missing the Powerball number was sold in Los Angeles County, the California Lottery announced. It's worth $164,525.
The winning ticket was sold at a 7-Eleven store in Lynwood at 10648 Atlantic Blvd. Wednesday night's ticket matched numbers 5-16-18-26-67 but was missing the Powerball number 4.
There was no jackpot winner in any state for this drawing, so the estimated jackpot for Saturday's drawing will grow to an estimated $120 million. The recent drawing marked the seventh since the last time a jackpot ticket was sold.
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The odds of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number is 1 in 292.2 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24.9.
Tickets with five numbers but missing the Powerball number sold in other states are worth either $1 million or $2 million, but California law requires major lottery game payoffs to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis.
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There were a total of 42,718 winning tickets for this draw with people winning anywhere from $4 to more than $21,000.
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