A winning ticket in Wednesday’s Powerball jackpot was sold in California, according to its website. The estimated $1.08 billion jackpot marked the third time in the game’s history that the jackpot has passed the billion-dollar mark.
A winning ticket in Wednesday’s $1 billion Powerball jackpot was sold in California.The winning ticket was sold at Las Palmitas Mini Market in downtown Los Angeles, according to California Lottery'sThe jackpot was estimated as $1.08 billion with a $558.1 million cash value, according to the Powerball site.
Powerball passed the estimated $1 billion jackpot mark for only the third time in the game's history after no one won in Monday night’s drawing, officials said. The game began in 1992. The jackpot had last been won on April 19, and jackpots increase every time someone fails to win the top prize.The game’s rules were changed in 2015 to make it less likely that someone would win the jackpot but more likely that someone would win a prize.
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