Powerball players just miss $474 million jackpot — but still win big in California

Two Powerball tickets sold in California won $44,546 each, just missing the $474 million jackpot, lottery officials say.

The ticket matched four winning numbers and the Powerball in the drawing Saturday, Nov. 8, 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 Santora’s Hot Wings in Mission Viejo, which is about a 50-mile drive southeast from Los Angeles, and Powell Grocery in San Francisco, lottery officials said in an email to McClatchy News.

The winning numbers were 3, 53, 60, 62 and 68 with a Powerball of 11. The Power Play multiplier was 2x.

Powerball jackpot rises

Nobody won the jackpot, which rises to an estimated $490 million, with a cash value of about $228.9 million, for the next drawing Monday, Nov. 10, the national Powerball site said.

Nearly 850,000 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 Sept. 6, when players in Missouri and Texas split the $1.787 billion 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.