Powerball player in California hits $1.08 billion jackpot, third largest ever
Nearly $2 billion was up for grabs between the $1.08 billion Powerball jackpot and the $720 million Mega Millions jackpot
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One lucky Powerball player in California is $1.08 billion richer after winning Wednesday's third-highest jackpot ever.
The jackpot has an estimated cash value of $558.1 million.
The winning numbers were 7, 13, 10, 24 and 11. The Powerball was 24. The Power Play multiplier was 2X.
"This has turned into a historic jackpot run; this is only the third time in Powerball’s 31-year history that a jackpot has reached the billion-dollar threshold," Drew Svitko, Powerball Product Group Chair and Pennsylvania Lottery Executive Director, said in a Powerball news release.
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A person holds up their Powerball ticket in New York City on Wednesday. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Three lucky players won a $2 million prize for matching five white balls plus the Power Play, and 36 took home the $1 million prize for matching five white balls.
Other Powerball jackpots won this year include a $754.6 million sum won in Washington on Jan. 5, a $162.6 million tally won in Virginia on March 4, and a $252.6 million windfall won in Ohio on April 19.
A security guard walks past signs displaying how much money could be won in the lottery in Rosemead, California, on Wednesday. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Only two other previous Powerball jackpots have topped the current one in terms of size, the lottery said.
Powerball gave out its largest-ever grand prize in 2022 when the jackpot reached $2.04 billion. In 2016, someone won the second-largest jackpot at $1.586 billion, according to the lottery.
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The 10 largest Powerball jackpots to date:
- $2.04 Billion – Nov. 7, 2022 – CA
- $1.586 Billion – Jan. 13, 2016 – CA, FL, TN
- $875 Million (est.) – July 15, 2023
- $768.4 Million – March 27, 2019 – WI
- $758.7 Million – Aug. 23, 2017 – MA
- $754.6 Million – Feb. 6, 2023 - WA
- $731.1 Million – Jan. 20, 2021 – MD
- $699.8 Million – Oct. 4, 2021 – CA
- $687.8 Million – Oct. 27, 2018 – IA, NY
- $632.6 Million – Jan. 5, 2022 – CA, WI
The Powerball jackpot topped $1 billion for Wednesday's drawing, which has only happened two times before in the history of the game. (GIORGIO VIERA/AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Mega Millions, meanwhile, has now gone 26 drawings without a ticket landing someone the grand prize.
A winning ticket for the Mega Millions jackpot was most recently drawn on two separate occasions in April. The one on April 14 brought an estimated $483 million haul, while the other four days later was $20 million, the lottery said.
Nearly $2 billion was up for grabs between the $1 billion Powerball jackpot and the $720 million Mega Millions jackpot.
A woman holds Powerball lottery tickets inside a store in Homestead, Florida, on Wednesday. (GIORGIO VIERA/AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)
The odds of hitting the grand prize jackpot are one in 292.2 million.
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Powerball tickets cost $2 per play and are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The deadline for purchasing a ticket is 9:45 p.m. on draw nights.
Fox News' Aislinn Murphy contributed to this report.