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Powerball player wins $100,000 in Texas. Where was the lucky ticket sold?
A Powerball player in Texas won $100,000, just missing the $266 million jackpot, lottery officials said.
The ticket matched four winning numbers, the Powerball and the Power Play multiplier in the drawing Wednesday, July 16, the California Lottery said.
The lucky ticket was sold at Best Mart in Emory, which is about a 100-mile drive east from Fort Worth, lottery officials told McClatchy News in an email.
Another player won $50,000 on a ticket sold at a Time Mart in Brookshire, which is about a 240-mile drive southeast from Fort Worth.
The winning numbers were 4, 21, 43, 48 and 49 with a Powerball of 22. The Power Play multiplier was 2x.
Powerball jackpot rises
Nobody won the grand prize, which rises to an estimated $288 million, with a cash value of about $130.6 million, for the next drawing Saturday, July 19, the national Powerball site said.
More than 405,000 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 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.
