{"id":234810,"date":"2026-03-24T22:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/234810\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T22:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:59:08","slug":"sacramento-area-powerball-player-won-five-figure-sum-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/234810\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento area Powerball player won five-figure sum Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lottery player in the Sacramento area was one number away from winning more than $100 million on Monday, according to California State Lottery<\/a> officials.<\/p>\n

The ticket still ended up winning $24,098.<\/p>\n

The winning Powerball ticket matched four correct numbers and the bonus Powerball number, according to lottery officials.<\/p>\n

California adjusts lottery prizes based on the number of tickets sold and number of winners.<\/p>\n

Where was the winning Powerball ticket sold in the Sacramento region?<\/p>\n

According to a spokesperson for the California State Lottery, the four-number-plus-Powerball matching ticket was sold at Mr. Liquor, 7807 Madison Ave. in Citrus Heights. It is near the intersection of Sunrise Boulevard and Madison Avenue.<\/p>\n

Retailers who sell winning lottery tickets receive a sales bonus from the lottery commission. For the Powerball draw game, retailers will earn a 0.5% bonus on the jackpot amount for selling a ticket that wins at least $1 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"A A Powerball hopeful fills out his playslip inside Lichine\u2019s Liquor & Deli on Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. The California State Lottery has raised more than $48 billion for public schools since 1985. LAUREN CHAPMAN lchapman@sacbee.com What were the winning Powerball numbers on Monday?<\/p>\n

On Monday, the winning numbers were 12, 18, 47, 56 and 63 with a Powerball of 1.<\/p>\n

According to the national Powerball site, one player in New York won a $2 million prize Monday with a five-number match plus a Power Play.<\/p>\n

More than 42,000 Powerball tickets sold across California<\/a> on Monday won prizes ranging between $4 and more than $24,000, according to the state lottery website. Nationwide, 241,018 Powerball tickets won prizes<\/a> Monday.<\/p>\n

How much is the Powerball jackpot now?<\/p>\n

No one won the jackpot Monday evening, bringing the current top prize to $147 million<\/a>. The jackpot\u2019s estimated cash value is around $66.6 million, according to the national Powerball website.<\/p>\n

The last time someone won the Powerball jackpot was on Monday, March 2, when an Arkansas player won $251 million<\/a>, the national Powerball website reported.<\/p>\n

How to play Powerball lottery game<\/p>\n

To score a jackpot in Powerball, a player must match all five white balls and the red Powerball.<\/p>\n

The odds of scoring the jackpot prize are 1 in 292,201,338.<\/p>\n

Tickets can be bought on the day of the drawing, but sales times and price vary by state.<\/p>\n

When is the next Powerball drawing?<\/p>\n

Powerball drawings are broadcast Saturday, Monday and Wednesday at 7:59 p.m. Pacific Time and can be streamed online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The next drawing will be Wednesday, March 25. Powerball is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.<\/p>\n

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Camila Pedrosa is a service journalism reporter at The Sacramento Bee. She previously worked as a summer reporting intern for The Bee and reported in Phoenix and Washington, D.C. She graduated from Arizona State University with a master\u2019s degree in mass communication.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lottery player in the Sacramento area was one number away from winning more than $100 million on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[106264,106261,106260,121,123,122,106262,106263],"class_list":["post-234810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-how-much-do-powerball-tickets-cost","tag-how-much-is-the-powerball-jackpot","tag-powerball-california-sale-locations","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-when-did-someone-last-win-the-powerball-jackpot","tag-when-is-the-next-powerball-drawing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234810","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=234810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}