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A Powerball ticket sold in Oregon won the $329 million jackpot, lottery officials say. The ticket matched five winning Powerball numbers and Powerball, in the drawing Saturday, Jan. 18, the national Powerball site said.
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Powerball reset to $20 million after an Oregon ticket matched all 6 numbers, winning $331 million. After another rollover, total jumped to $31 million
Better odds and bigger jackpots. The California Lottery Commission is scheduled to vote Thursday on changing the way the Mega Millions game is played.
Powerball streak ended Jan. 18, 2025, when a ticket in Oregon matched 6 numbers to win $331 million. Jackpot reset to $20 million for Jan. 20, 2025.
A Powerball ticket sold in California won $33,113, but just missed the $285 million jackpot, lottery officials say. The tickets matched four winning Powerball numbers and the Powerball in the drawing Monday, Jan. 13, the California Lottery said.
There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in the latest drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery, pushing the estimated jackpot for Wednesday's drawing to $31 million.
The ticket was sold at a GasGo Market in Helotes, about a 275-mile drive southwest from Fort Worth, the Texas Lottery said. Another ticket sold in Texas matched four numbers drawn plus the Powerball to win $150,000 with the Power Play multiplier.
The Powerball jackpot has not been hit since Saturday, Jan. 18, when an Oregon player hit the $329 million grand prize, lottery officials said. 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.
The lottery jackpot was an estimated $31 million with a cash option of $13.8 million for Wednesday night's drawing, according to the Powerball website. The jackpot was last won on Jan. 18 when a Oregon lottery player won $329 million Powerball jackpot.