MARSHALL, Mo. — After months without a winner, a lottery player finally won the $1 billion Powerball jackpot Wednesday night.
Although the jackpot winner lived in California, players in Missouri won prizes worth more than $1 million. According to the Missouri Lottery, four players won $50,000 and another won $1 million.
The million-dollar winner purchased the ticket at a Casey's General Store on Eastwood Street in Marshall. The ticket matches all five of the white-ball numbers and only missed the Powerball number of 24.
The biggest prize for a person in the St. Louis area was a ticket worth $50,000 sold in O'Fallon. That ticket was one of four that matched four white balls. Those tickets were sold at:
- Casey’s, 400 Krestel Lane, in Lake Ozark
- QuikTrip, 6835 E. Truman Road, in Kansas City
- White Oak Station, 3200 Green Mountain Drive, in Branson
- QuikTrip, 140 O’Fallon Loop Road, in O’Fallon
A lottery player in Illinois also won $1 million.
Wednesday's prize, which rose to $1.08 billion by drawing time, ranks as the game's third largest prize, only behind the world record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot won last year and the $1.586 billion Powerball jackpot won in 2016. It's the sixth-largest lottery win among all games.
The winning ticket was sold in Los Angeles, the California Lottery said on Twitter.
Another massive jackpot of $720 million is up for grabs in Friday's Mega Millions drawing.
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