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California player wins big in Powerball. Where was the lucky ticket sold?

A Powerball ticket sold in California fell just one number short of winning the $126 million jackpot, lottery officials said.

Instead, the lucky ticket won $812,200.

The ticket matched five winning numbers but not the Powerball in the drawing Saturday, Jan. 10 the California State Lottery said.

Two other tickets matched four numbers and the Powerball to win $19,211 each.

California adjusts lottery prizes based on the number of tickets sold and number of winners.

Where was winning Powerball ticket sold in California?

The $812,200 ticket was sold at an Arco AM/PM at 50 W. Los Angeles Ave. in Moorpark, which is about a 50-mile drive northwest from downtown Los Angeles..

What were winning numbers in Saturday’s drawing?

The winning numbers were 5, 19, 21, 28 and 64 with a Powerball of 14.

The Power Play multiplier was 3x.

Tickets sold in Ohio and Oregon won $1 million each, the national Powerball site said.

What is the Powerball jackpot up to now?

Nobody won the jackpot, which rises to an estimated $137 million, with a cash value of about $61.9 million for the Monday drawing , the national Powerball site stated.

Nearly 600,000 other Powerball tickets sold in the United States also won prizes ranging from $4 to $150,000, the lottery said. There were more than 70,000 winners in California.

The Powerball jackpot was last won Dec. 24, when an Arkansas player won the $1.82 billion jackpot.

How to play Powerball lottery game

To score a jackpot in 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. Sales times and price vary by state.

When is the next Powerball drawing?

Powerball drawings are broadcast Saturdays, Mondays and Wednesdays at 7:59 p.m. Pacific Time and can be streamed online.

The next drawing will be Monday.

Powerball is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

This story was originally published January 11, 2026 at 10:12 AM with the headline "California player wins big in Powerball. Where was the lucky ticket sold?."

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Don Sweeney
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Don Sweeney has been a newspaper reporter and editor in California for more than 35 years. He is a service reporter based at The Sacramento Bee.
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