Final jackpot total of $425.3 million is sixth-largest ever in USA
By Todd Northrop
One winning Powerball lottery ticket that hit a $425.3 million jackpot Wednesday night was sold in Milpitas, California, according to lottery officials.
The ticket was purchased at Dixon Landing Chevron, located at 1551 California Circle. It successfully matched the numbers 1, 17, 35, 49, and 54, in addition to the Powerball number 34. The Power Play number was 3.
The $425.3 million Powerball jackpot, which is the sixth-largest of any lottery game in history, started as a $40 million prize on December 28, 2013, and continued accumulating prize money for 15 consecutive drawings, until it was finally won Wednesday night.
Early Sunday morning the game's organizer estimated Wednesday's jackpot at $400 million, and larger-than expected ticket sales led to the upwardly-revised total announced just before the drawing Wednesday.
Dixon Landing Chevron will receive a $1 million bonus for selling the winning ticket, officials said.
The South Bay is no stranger to selling jackpot-winning lottery tickets.
In December, a small San Jose gift shop sold a $324 million Mega Millions ticket. It was one of two big tickets. The other was sold in Georgia.
In addition to the big jackpot winner, 18 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $1,000,000 prize: 1 from Arizona, 2 from California, 2 from Florida, 2 from Georgia, 1 from Indiana, 1 from Louisiana, 2 from New York, 1 from Ohio, 1 from Pennsylvania, 1 from South Carolina, 2 from Tennessee, 1 from Texas, and 1 from West Virginia.
The 2 California second-prize winners will each be awarded $1,444,906, because California does not award fixed prizes. By law, California awards all prizes on a pari-mutuel basis, meaning the prizes will change each drawing based on the number of tickets sold and the number of tickets that won at each prize level.
Only the ticket sold in Texas was purchased with the Power Play option for an extra $1, automatically doubling that prize to $2 million.
Power Play is not available in California, because the fixed nature of the prize increase offered in Power Play is not compatible with California's pari-mutuel payouts.
144 tickets matched four white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Of those tickets, 16 were purchased with the Power Play option, increasing the prize to $30,000, and 17 of the tickets were sold in California, where the prize was worth $9,308 this drawing.
The jackpot for the Saturday Powerball drawing is reset to $40 million.
Powerball is now played in 43 states, plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Drawings are Wednesdays and Saturdays at 10:59 p.m. Eastern Time. Tickets cost $2 each.
A 44th Powerball state will be added in early 2014, as the state of Wyoming has approved a new state lottery with the intention of joining Powerball and other multi-state lottery games. (See Wyoming officially becomes 44th state with a lottery, Lottery Post, Mar. 14, 2013.)
Powerball lottery results are published within minutes of the drawing at USA Mega (www.usamega.com). The USA Mega Web site provides lottery players in-depth information about the United States's two biggest multi-state lottery games, Mega Millions and Powerball.
Bummer. I was hoping it would roll because it's getting warmer and sales would have exploded.
I did say a California will win this jackpot, was also hoping it was me. Guess I will have to wait for the next jackpot.
I'm done with Powerball. Too expensive. Will only play MM. Congrats to the winner.
Congratulations to all the WINNERS
Ah I never win. Expensive.
Also I agree beyond mad about 2nd prize not being Xs 1-5 like Mega.
Congratulations you was right
on to the next one
Congratulation to all the winner/s
newbies much like small children ought to be seen but not heard
Congrats to the winners and may your new diggs be sitting on a XXL sinkhole
Fn California.
Why don't they just give California, New York, Florida, and Georgia their OWN MUSL game?
They could win every drawing and split the change with each other and the rest of us could actually have a fair shot at winning PB or MM!
and a G'morning to U too Mr Sour Grapes
Congratulations to all the winners! Enjoy!
What luck, now they can afford a 3 bedroom house out there.
LOL.......people get so mad when they don't win, everyone should be used to it by now.
you'd think so anyway ......
I haven't even checked my ticket yet, nore am I in any hurry
heck I'd be very happy just to get my $2 back so I can play the MM
Happy for the winner, but darn we are back to a boring 40m compared to 400m
Congrats to the winners, maybe next time for the rest of us. I don't get why people get mad when they don't win, just be happy for those that did. Take a little joy in knowing you contributed to their happiness.
I'm not happy because it's California.
If the winner was from Nebraska for example, I'd be happy.
it's just too easy to win, right?
For California it is.
Congrats to the new millionaire.
What if the winner recently moved from Nebraska to California?
What the HELL!? I also called on california winning. I hate that I was right about it too. Now I know there's gotta be shenanigans with california always winning. Time for an investigation.
It's all in the plan.
PB is just too easy to win now with those puny 175M odds. MM is probably saying, "Now we'll show you what a REAL jackpot frenzy looks like with our much superior 258M odds!"
Congrats to the lucky winner
Yea Hah, Another Gas station has produced another millionaire. Should consider
buying my tickets at the WAWA gas and convenience store in central N.J.
We have other gas stations throughout the state that sell lottery tickets. We don't need to just patronize one brand or company.
That's an awesome bonus for Dixon Landing Chevron selling the winning ticket. Congratualtions to them and all the other million dollar winners.
Wonder how long it will take for the grand prize winner to show up to claim their prize and be famous?
Congrats to the winner! Love those single ticket winners on this bigger jackpots. It just makes it more fun.
Time to take a deep breath and relax. Focus now on Megamillions. Almost $95m for Friday's draw. I could do that. Easily.
Stupid Powerball!!!
Stupid California!!!
Cash is king. $94.9 million.
Some time in the future, when someone hits the inter-galactic lottery:
How come it's always someone from planet Troubador 27? They always win.
I lost $36 playing this draw, but i'm gonna make it back by stealing $40 worth of playslips.
Hmmmm ?? Someone(s) who purchased this ticket in California is now 150 + million richer(after taxes of course) and California has no taxes on this ????
Interesting.
To the winner(s) I hope you get some sleep soon and congrats on your win. Your life will be forever changed. Spend and invest wisely
Yeah, like in the movie Contact, when Jodie Foster travels through a wormhole to the Vega star system.
"Why do those darn friggin' Vegans always win!?#@"
I am shaking my losing tickets in anger! LOL
I thought it was always Pluto.
for JJ
and
I feel your pain prince!!
I know trax, I know!
California LOL!
The winner will pay!
Totally agree. The west does not complain when we read of winners from FL or NJ. Don't worry be happy- what goes around comes around. ..as they say!
Congrats to the Winner/ Winners.
JD:
Yeah at least 2 people in D WORLD should B HAPPY now!
(1) the $425 million ticket holder
(2) the Dixon Landing store owner who was on his way to India when he found out
some of you need to get over the fact that a certain state (in this case ca) win so often. maybe they sold 50x as many tickets as your dismal midwestern tornado strewn state did. that means that there are 50x as many losers in cal as in your state. no such thing as a lucky state or store, gas station, or wherever you can buy them. the only thing that matters is your set of numbers or a clerks hesitant or non-hestitant finger on a quick pic lottery machine. nothing else matters especially where you live. less tickets sold in a state means the winner is less likely to come from there. i estimate there are probably 500x more tickets sold in ca, ny, fla, ma than in nebraska for example, thus the preponderence of more winners there. that's all it means. also stop complaining about the differences in the 2 games. if you don't like one or the other don't play it. many of you don't realize how much better off your chances would be winning your own state lotto or cash 5 games. facing 175 million to 1 odds twice a week isn't the way to go with your average life span of only 70 something years. especially those that don't play unless it's 300 million or more thus limiting your chances even more. what's wrong with 40 million if that's they type of prize you're looking for. can't scrape by with that. no one would be hounding you as much for sure. ohio people should be focusing on that 56 million state lotto instead of these insidious mm or pb jackpots. percentages are much more in your favor there. so shovel your way out and play that one if you're "lucky" enough to be in that state.
That $40M looks good from here. I will buy one ticket.
For all you 'crazy just cant be happy for the winners' people out there who are suffering from some sort or Lotto winners location confirmation bias...here are all the States that won in 2013: From last to first: Now please stop the nonsense about only some States always win. You sound quite silly. As it is with most things in life, we seem to see only that which we chooe to see and ignore FACTS! Come on now, stop all the crazy talk..
Missouri : December 25, 2013
Nebraska / Massachussetts : December 11, 2013
New York : November 16, 2013
California : October 23, 2013
South Carolina : September 18, 2013
Minnesota / New Jersey (2) : August 7, 2013
Pennsylvania : June 22, 2013
Texas : May 29, 2013
Delaware / Florida / Louisiana: May 25, 2013
Florida : May 18, 2013....the huge jackpot won by the little old lady : )
Illinois : March 30, 2013
New Jersey : March 23, 2013
Virginia : February 6, 2013
And for more details about past winners and where they are from, see the link below. Wish the winners well, and pray/wait for your turn. No need to hate on the winners people, they were just like you the day before they hit.
http://www.powerball.com/powerball/pb_stories.asp
Right on Maringoman...I was beginning to think i was the only one that found the $40MIL prize just as beautiful.
I just had a crazy idea....imagine if all lotteries had something like a progressive increase of odds: that is, with each draw the odds reduced/increased. So at $40MIL the odds would be something like 1:70,000,000. and by the time it got to $500MIL its like 1:350,000,000. hahahhaa, that would be some funny stuff. I wonder if it could work? Of course to make things work that way, what they would have to do is keep the play slip the same with maybe 99 different numbers, but for each draw they'd throw more numbers in the machine. LOL!!!
What'd you guys think? Viable option/possibility?
The ticket was a quick pick ?
You forgot mega millions. Nice try though.
I would recommend looking on the powerball and megamillions websites. Oh and don't forget as soon as california joined powerball, they won the jackpot pretty fast. Something is very biased, It seems to be mostly an east coast west coast thing.
HUH??? A few things: We were discussing the POWERBALL from last night right??? Not sure what you are talking about in regards to me looking at the PB website when the info i provided was directly lifted from THAT very website....I included a link in the subsequent post taken directly from the PB website, did you bother to look at it or again chose to ignore FACTS??
There are so many factual points i could highlight to refute your persistent gripe but why bother, its clear your mind is made up to believe that which you want to believe. Stop the whinning. Cali, Florida, NY, Texas are the most populous States in the nation and they are not even the States with the most Powerball JACKPOT winners. That title goes to INDIANA!!! And if we choose to add a bit of common sense in the mix, we'd be able to conclude with no great surpise for those with a brain, that the States with greater population size = greater number tickets sold = greater number of overall winners (not necessarily Jackpot winners).
Good luck to you!
California started selling PB tickets in April of last year. There were 10 different people who either won a jackpot or shared a jackpot before Calif had there first winner on Oct.23. California sells roughly 10% or sometimes even a little higher % of all tckets sold for each drawing so they did not actually hit it rather quick after joining but hit it about when they would have been due going by the amount of tickets they sell. Last nights total sells were reported to be A little over 183 million dollars. A little over 74 million which would be a bit over 40% came from these 5 states. Calif New York Texas Flordia and Pennsylvania. So in the long run that means those 5 states should produce 4 out of every 10 winners. Add New Jersey and Illinois to it and it comes up to over 92 million which means those 7 states sold over 50% of the total tickets sold.
Another voice of reason emerges. Thank you Alexnt. Not only for your post but for providing the statistical info/analysis.
Considering the odds are 1 in 175,000,000 and there are 317,569,814 people in the US as of this second (according to the US Census Population Clock)...I guess you then have to try to imagine it's you against almost half the country during any Powerball draw. Maybe now you can understand why you aren't winning.
You're right, it is biased. The winning tickets are heavily biased towards the states that sell the most tickets. It's almost as if it's based on simple probability.
Another big California PB win! Keep the streak going Cali
I am so happy for the winner. I don't take other people opinion to heart. I don't think anybody on here is seriously angry or bitter because they didn't win or the state of California yields yet another msul winner. I have my own opinion and I would be a disgrace to humanity if I insult someone else because they expressed an opinion that I disagree with.
I live in Florida. We have the Florida Lottery, Mega Money, and Fantasy 5 Jackpot games and most of the winners come from south florida usually a quick pick. I was very curious about why this was, well it happens. I talked to a professional lottery player so to speak and he said because there are more people in South Florida and they buy the most tickets. So if there is a state that is winning more than others could it just be the population/tickets sold or just plain old chance?! I use to think some stores sold better numbers than others, like there is some dude working for the lottery saleing certain stores certain numbers that have better odds
...I am happy for the winner. The first thing that had come to my mind was I hope he or she get all of their money because California is a state that don't match the jackpot they go off of tickets sold or something..I'm not sure...Alright people...let's win!!!
States that have the highest populations sell more ticekets and thus have more winners....
Can we stop using facts and common sense? You're just confusing everybody.
Congrats to the winner in Cali.