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Powerball Lottery Ticket Worth Nearly $1M Sold in Southland
The ticket matching five numbers was sold at a gas station in the city of Commerce. Was it yours?
A ticket with five numbers in Wednesday night's drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery, but missing the Powerball number, was sold at a gasoline station in Commerce and is worth $771,194.
A ticket with all six numbers was sold in Florida and is worth $292 million, the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game, announced.
The numbers drawn Wednesday night were 12, 13, 44, 52, 62 and the Powerball number was 6.
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The drawing was the 14th 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.
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The Powerball game is played in 44 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.
The jackpot for Saturday's drawing will be $40 million.
-- City News Service, photo via Shutterstock
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