$2.04B Powerball Jackpot Ticket Sold In Delayed Drawing

Editor's Note: Patch erroneously reported that the Powerball jackpot had grown to $2.3 billion after no one claimed the winning numbers at Monday's drawing. A winning ticket was sold in California. Patch regrets the error.

ACROSS AMERICA — At least one player bought a winning ticket in the $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot ticket in the latest drawing, lottery officials in California said Tuesday.

The player who bought a ticket in Altadena matched the winning numbers — 10, 33, 41, 47 and 56, with a Powerball of 10. It was the largest prize in U.S. lottery history, and only the fourth time in the 30-year history of the game that the jackpot has crossed $1 billion.

That means the jackpot in the Wednesday drawing will be reset.

Players went to bed Monday without knowing a winner. The frenzied pace of ticket-buying didn’t “break” Powerball Monday night. Rather, game officials said the delay came after one of the participating state lotteries was unable to process its sales data.

“Powerball requires all 48 participating lotteries to submit their sales and play data prior to the winning numbers being selected,” the Multi-State Lottery Association said in a statement. The organization declined to say in which state the delay occurred.

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If no one wins the jackpot Wednesday, it will continue to grow. It’s only the fourth U.S. lottery jackpot to surpass $1 billion, but none of them came close to the current jackpot. The odds of winning it remain daunting — 1 in 292.2 million — no matter how many tickets are sold.

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No one has claimed the prize since Aug. 3. The jackpot for Wednesday’s drawing is about $700 million more than the previous record jackpot of $1.586 million split by players in California, Florida and Tennessee in 2016.

A Powerball ticket costs $2. For an additional $1 per ticket, players can multiply non-jackpot prizes by up to 10 times with the Power Play feature. One caveat: The 10X multiplier is only available when the advertised jackpot annuity is $150 million or less.

To win the jackpot, a player must match all white balls in any order and the red Powerball number. Lottery officials say chances are higher when players don’t choose their own numbers. About 75 percent of winning tickets over the years were picked by a computer.

Drawings are held three times a week, at 10:59 p.m. EST on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Powerball said that although a jackpot-winning ticket wasn’t sold, millions of smaller prizes will be paid out after the latest draw.