Northern California player wins big in Powerball. Where was the lucky ticket sold?
A Powerball ticket sold in Northern California fell just one number short of winning the $178 million jackpot, lottery officials said.
Instead, the lucky ticket won $364,462.
The ticket matched five winning numbers but not the Powerball in the drawing Saturday, the California State Lottery said.
Another ticket matched four numbers and the Powerball to win $39,805.
California adjusts lottery prizes based on the number of tickets sold and number of winners.
Where was winning Powerball ticket sold in California?
The $364,462 ticket was sold at a Safeway supermarket at 427 W. Napa St. in Sonoma, which is about a 45-mile drive north from San Francisco, lottery officials said...
What were winning numbers in Saturday’s drawing?
The winning numbers were 5, 8, 27, 49 and 57with a Powerball of 14.
The Power Play multiplier was 4x.
A ticket sold in South Carolina won $1 million, the national Powerball site said.
What is the Powerball jackpot up to now?
Nobody won the jackpot, which rises to an estimated $193 million, with a cash value of about $87.9 million, for the next drawing Monday, the national Powerball site said.
Nearly 600,000 other Powerball tickets sold in the United States also won prizes ranging from $4 to $200,000, the lottery said. There were more than 70,000 winners in California.
The Powerball jackpot was last won Dec. 24, when an Arkansas player won the $1.82 billion jackpot.
How to play Powerball lottery game
To score a jackpot in 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.
When is the next Powerball drawing?
Powerball drawings are broadcast Saturdays, Mondays and Wednesdays at 7:59 p.m. Pacific Time and can be streamed online.
The next drawing will be Monday.
Powerball is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
This story was originally published January 18, 2026 at 9:25 AM.