Auburn store sells ticket with $550,000 prize from Powerball drawing on Christmas Day
How does a cool half-million dollars sound for Christmas?
No one won the top jackpot in Saturday’s Powerball drawing, but six tickets across the U.S. matched five of six balls for the second-biggest prize.
Four of those winning tickets were sold in California, including one at an AM/PM store in Auburn (13405 Lincoln Way), according to the California Lottery.
The California winners each turned a $2 ticket into $554,808. The state’s other three winning tickets were sold in Los Banos, Nipomo and Tujunga.
The other two big winners nationwide were sold in South Carolina and Tennessee, worth $1 million apiece. Powerball prizes in California are pari-mutuel, meaning they depend on ticket sales and the number of winning tickets.
Saturday’s winning numbers were 27-29-45-55-58 and 2 for the Powerball.
The odds of matching all five white balls are about 1 in 11.7 million, according to the California Lottery. The odds of hitting the grand prize — all five white balls plus the Powerball — are about 1 in 292 million.
The last Powerball grand prize-winning ticket, worth $699 million, was sold at an Albertsons grocery store in the coastal California city of Morro Bay.
The winner, publicly identified as Scott Godfrey, took a lump sum of about $496 million after taxes. Godfrey told a local radio station he had set up a foundation to distribute the money to various charitable organizations.
The Powerball lottery is drawn every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. The jackpot in this Wednesday’s drawing is estimated at $441 million.
This story was originally published December 28, 2021 at 1:54 PM.
