Powerball player wins $50,000 prize in Washington. Where was the lucky ticket sold?
A Powerball ticket sold in Washington won $50,000, just missing the estimated $483 million jackpot, lottery officials say.
The ticket matched four winning numbers and the Powerball in the drawing Wednesday, March 26, the Washington Lottery said.
The lucky ticket was sold at a grocery store in Vancouver, which is about a 165-mile drive south from Seattle, lottery officials said.
A ticket sold in California won $5.7 million. Tickets sold in New York and Washington, D.C., won $1 million each.
Nobody won the grand prize, which rises to an estimated $515 million, with a cash value of about $242.7 million, for the next drawing Saturday, March 29, the national Powerball site said.
The winning numbers were 5, 20, 29, 39 and 53, with a Powerball of 6, the lottery said. The Power Play multiplier was 3x.
More than 590,000 other Powerball tickets sold in the United States also won prizes ranging from $4 to $150,000, the lottery said.
The Powerball jackpot was last won Jan. 18, when an Oregon player hit the $329 million grand prize, lottery officials said.
What to know about Powerball
To score a jackpot in the Powerball, a player must match all five white balls and the red Powerball.
The odds of scoring the jackpot prize are 1 in 292,201,338.
Tickets can be bought on the day of the drawing, but sales times and price vary by state.
Drawings are broadcast Saturdays, Mondays and Wednesdays at 10:59 p.m. ET and can be streamed online.
Powerball is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
