Powerball player wins $50,000 in Texas. Where was the lucky ticket sold?
A Powerball player in Texas won $50,000, just missing the $30 million jackpot, lottery officials say.
The tickets matched four winning numbers and the Powerball in the drawing Wednesday, April 30, the Texas Lottery site said.
The lucky ticket was sold at a Walmart Supercenter in Richmond, about a 30-mile drive southwest from Houston, lottery officials told McClatchy News.
Nobody won the grand prize, which rises to an estimated $44 million, with a cash value of about $20.3 million, for the next drawing Saturday, May 3, the national Powerball site said.
The winning numbers were 1, 2, 3, 57 and 59, with a Powerball of 9, the site said. The Power Play multiplier was 2x.
More than 290,000 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 April 26, when a Kentucky player hit the $167 million grand prize, lottery officials said.
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.