$307K Winning Powerball Ticket Sold At Venice Liquor Store

VENICE, CA — A Powerball lottery ticket with five numbers excluding the Power number was sold at a liquor store in Venice, the California Lottery announced at last night's drawing.

The winning ticket, now worth $307,416, was sold at Venice Liquor at 2171 Venice Blvd. in Venice.

Wednesday night's ticket matched numbers 1-4-13-35-58 and was missing the Power number 24.

There was no jackpot winner in any state for this draw, so the estimated jackpot for Saturday's drawing will grow to an estimated $70 million.

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 payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis.

The drawing was the third since 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 Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24.87.

The Powerball game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

There were a total of 39,396 winning tickets for this draw with people winning anywhere from $4 to more than $7,000.

City News Service contributed to this report.