Powerball player just misses $716 million jackpot in Texas — but still wins big
A Powerball ticket sold in Texas won $100,000, just missing the $716 million jackpot, lottery officials say.
The ticket matched four winning numbers, the Powerball and the Power Play multiplier in the drawing Saturday, Aug. 23, the Texas Lottery said.
A ticket sold in South Dakota won $2 million. Tickets sold in Maine and New York won $1 million each.
The winning numbers were 11, 14, 34, 47 and 51 with a Powerball of 18. The Power Play multiplier was 2x.
Powerball jackpot rises
Nobody won the grand prize, which rises to an estimated $750 million, with a cash value of about $338.6 million, for the next drawing Monday, Aug. 25, the national Powerball site said.
More than 1.7 million 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 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.