Powerball players win big in California. Where were lucky tickets sold?

Two Powerball players in California won $52,540 each, just missing the $217 million jackpot, lottery officials say.

The tickets matched five winning numbers but not the Powerball in the drawing Wednesday, July 9, the California Lottery said.

California adjusts lottery prizes based on the number of tickets sold and number of winners.

The lucky tickets were sold at the Five Star Smoke Shop in Hesperia, which is about an 80-mile drive northeast from Los Angeles, and a 7-Eleven store in Fremont, which is about a 40-mile drive southeast from San Francisco, lottery officials said.

A Powerball player in Texas won $2 million, lottery officials said. Two players won $1 million prizes in Illinois and Massachusetts, and players also won $1 million in Florida and Nebraska.

Nobody won the grand prize, which rises to an estimated $234 million, with a cash value of about $106.6 million, for the next drawing Saturday, July 12, the national Powerball site said.

The winning numbers July 9 were 5, 9, 25, 28 and 69, with a Powerball of 5. The Power Play multiplier was 2x.

More than 415,000 other Powerball tickets sold in the United States also won prizes ranging from $4 to $100,000, the lottery said.

The Powerball jackpot was last won May 31, when a California player hit the $204.5 million grand prize.

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.