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No Tickets Sold With All Six Powerball Lottery Numbers
Two tickets worth $1 million were sold in Florida and Georgia. Wednesday night's drawing will be worth $49 million, lottery officials said.
LOS ANGELES — There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in last night's drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery, pushing the estimated jackpot for Wednesday's drawing to $49 million.
One ticket each with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number was sold in Florida and Georgia. They are each worth $1 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game.
The numbers drawn Monday were 2, 27, 31, 44, 64 and the Powerball number was 18. The jackpot was $35 million.
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The drawing was the second 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 292.2 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24.9.
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The Powerball game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.
— By City News Service, Inc.
