Powerball player wins $150,000 in Texas. Where was the lucky ticket sold?
A Powerball player in Texas won $150,000, just missing the $349 million jackpot, lottery officials say.
The ticket matched four winning numbers, the Powerball and the Power Play multiplier in the drawing Saturday, July 26, the Texas Lottery said.
The lucky ticket was sold at a Pit Stop Food Mart store in New Braunfels, which is about a 35-mile drive northeast from San Antonio, officials said in an email to McClatchy News.
Another ticket sold at a Walmart Supercenter in New Caney, which is about a 30-mile drive northeast from Houston, matched four numbers drawn and the Powerball to win a $50,000 prize, lottery officials told McClatchy News.
The winning numbers were 8, 31, 57, 65 and 67 with a Powerball of 23. The Power Play multiplier was 3x.
Powerball jackpot rises
Nobody won the grand prize, which rises to an estimated $364 million, with a cash value of about $164.1 million, for the next drawing Monday, July 28, the national Powerball site said.
More than 675,000 other Powerball tickets sold in the United States also won prizes ranging from $4 to $150,000, the lottery said.
The Powerball jackpot was last won May 31, when a California player hit the $204.5 million 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.