Powerball lottery ticket wins $88,000 prize in California | Sacramento Bee

Nobody won the grand prize, which rises to an estimated $398 million, with a cash value of about $185.7 million. Getty Images/iStockphoto

A Powerball ticket sold in California won $88,475 but just missed the $381 million jackpot, lottery officials say.

The ticket matched four winning numbers and the Powerball in the drawing Saturday, March 15, the California Lottery said.

A ticket sold in Massachusetts won $1 million and one sold in Texas won $2 million in the drawing.

Nobody won the grand prize, which rises to an estimated $398 million, with a cash value of about $185.7 million, for the next drawing Monday, March 17, the national Powerball site said.

The winning numbers were 12, 28, 33, 36 and 54, with a Powerball of 5, the lottery said. The Power Play multiplier was 3x.

More than 715,000 other Powerball tickets sold in the United States also won prizes ranging from $4 to $150,000, the lottery said.

The Powerball jackpot was last won Jan. 18, when an Oregon player hit the $329 million grand prize, lottery officials said.

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.

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