Powerball player just misses $531 million jackpot in Kansas — but still wins big
A Powerball ticket sold in Kansas won $150,000, just missing the $531 million jackpot, lottery officials say.
The ticket matched four winning numbers, the Powerball and the Power Play in the drawing Wednesday, Aug. 13, the Kansas Lottery said.
Tickets sold in New Hampshire, Oregon and Texas each won $1 million prizes.
The winning numbers were 4, 11, 40, 44 and 50 with a Powerball of 4. The Power Play multiplier was 3x.
Powerball jackpot rises
Nobody won the grand prize, which rises to an estimated $565 million, with a cash value of about $258.8 million, for the next drawing Saturday, Aug. 16, the site said.
More than 780,000 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 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.