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Powerball player wins $100,000 prize in Texas. Where was the lucky ticket sold?
A Powerball player in Texas won $100,000, just missing the $503 million jackpot, lottery officials say.
The ticket matched four winning numbers, the Powerball and the Power Play multiplier in the drawing Monday, Aug. 11, the Texas Lottery site said.
The lucky ticket was sold at a Mr. N Food Store in Houston, lottery officials said in an email to McClatchy News.
Two other Texas players won $50,000 each. Those tickets were sold at a Circle K store in Houston and an H-E-B Food Store in Schertz, which is about a 20-mile drive northeast from San Antonio, officials said.
Players in Washington, New Jersey and Virginia each won $1 million prizes.
The winning numbers were 6, 16, 33, 40 and 62 with a Powerball of 2. The Power Play multiplier was 2x.
Powerball jackpot rises
Nobody won the grand prize, which rises to an estimated $526 million, with a cash value of about $241 million, for the next drawing Wednesday, Aug. 13, the national Powerball site said.
More than 620,000 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.
