Powerball player wins $80,000 in California. Where was the lucky ticket sold?
CORRECTION: This story has been updated to correctly reflect the winning Powerball numbers.
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A Powerball ticket sold in California won $80,504, just missing the $579 million jackpot, lottery officials say.
The ticket matched four winning numbers and the Powerball in the drawing Saturday, Aug. 16, the California Lottery said.
California adjusts lottery prizes based on the number of tickets sold and number of winners.
The lucky ticket was sold at Keller Market in Oakland, which is about a 10-mile drive northeast from San Francisco, lottery officials said in an email to McClatchy News.
The winning numbers were 23, 40, 49, 65 and 69 with a Powerball of 23. The Power Play multiplier was 3x.
Powerball jackpot rises
Nobody won the grand prize, which rises to an estimated $605 million, with a cash value of about $273.4 million, for the next drawing Monday, Aug. 18, the national Powerball site said.
More than 1 million 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 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.
This story was originally published August 17, 2025 at 7:34 AM.