{"id":104195,"date":"2025-12-21T21:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T21:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/104195\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T21:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T21:53:07","slug":"will-california-sell-next-winning-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/104195\/","title":{"rendered":"Will California sell next winning ticket?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/California-Lottery-lotto-e1553300662609.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/California-Lottery-lotto.jpg\" alt=\"SuperLotto Plus Mega Millions Lottery\" class=\"wp-image-22903\"\/><\/a>SuperLotto and other California Lottery tickets. File photo by Alexander Nguyen\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calottery.com\/en\/draw-games\/powerball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Powerball<\/a> jackpot now stands at an estimated $1.6 billion, making it one of the largest lottery prizes in U.S. history, Powerball officials said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>No ticket matched all six winning numbers on Saturday \u2014 white balls 4, 5, 28, 52, 69 and red Powerball 20. That sets up the fifth-largest U.S. jackpot ever for Monday\u2019s drawing, according to a news release from Powerball.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest U.S. jackpot was $2.04 billion in 2022. The winner bought the ticket in California and opted for a lump-sum payment of $997.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>The odds of winning Monday\u2019s jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million, according to Powerball.<\/p>\n<p>The winner can opt for a lump-sum payment estimated at $735.3 million or an annuitized prize estimated at $1.6 billion. Both prize options are before taxes.<\/p>\n<p>The annuity option offers one immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments that increase by 5% each year, Powerball said.<\/p>\n<p>Powerball is available in 45 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It is overseen by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Multi-State Lottery Association<\/a>, a nonprofit group made up of state lotteries. Profits from ticket sales are used by states to support public education and other services.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SuperLotto and other California Lottery tickets. File photo by Alexander Nguyen\/Times of San Diego) The Powerball jackpot now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,6954,8,228,22715,11406],"class_list":["post-104195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-lottery","tag-california-news","tag-jackpot","tag-lottery","tag-powerball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}