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A ticket with five numbers in last night’s drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery, but missing the Powerball number, was sold at a Long Beach gas station and is worth $1,607,469. The winning ticket ticket was purchased at the Shell station at Del Amo Boulevard and Cherry Avenue, according to lottery officials.

Another ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, was sold in Texas, the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game, announced. The purchaser chose the Power Play option, making the ticket worth $2 million.

California law requires major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on apari-mutuel basis.

There were no tickets sold with all six numbers and the estimated jackpot for Saturday’s drawing is expected to grow to $147 million.

The numbers drawn Wednesday were 6, 28, 48, 63, 64 and the Powerball number was 24. The jackpot was $131.5 million. The drawing was the ninth since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.

The odds of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number is 1 in about 293 million, according to the Powerball website. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24.87.

The Powerball game is played in 44 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.