Winning Powerball Ticket Sold at Albertsons in California

Powerball fever in Louisiana has been quite high with dreams of beach condos and luxury cars. Those dreams are over, for now. But someone in California will be able to go on quite a shopping spree. There is one winning ticket for the Monday night Powerball drawing and it is worth $699.8 million dollars. This is the 6th largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.

The winning ticket was sold at an Albertsons supermarket in Morro Bay, California, according to the state's lottery website.

Here are the winning numbers from the October 4 drawing:

12-22-54-66-69 and the Powerball was 15.

The jackpot was expected to be $685 million, but sales were so brisk the prize climbed to nearly $700 million. The onetime cash payout is $495 million.

Six other tickets matched matched all five white balls and are worth $1 million. Those were sold in Arizona, Florida, Massachusetts, Tennessee and Virginia.

Here’s a list of the top 20 prizes from the multistate games: Powerball and Mega Millions:

1. $1.586 billion Powerball January 13, 2016. There were 3 winning tickets for this prize. These tickets were purchased in Tennessee, Florida, and California. Each had the option to take a lump sum of  $327.8 million.
2. $1.537 billion Mega Millions October 2018. There was one winning ticket purchased in South Carolina. The ticket was sold at a KC Mart convenience store in the town of Simpsonville. This is the largest single-ticket jackpot in U.S. history.
3. $1.050 billion ($776.6 million cash) was won by the Wolverine FLL Club of Oakland County, Michigan in January of 2021.
4. $768.4 million, Powerball won by a single ticket in Wisconsin. Cash: $477 million.
5. $758 million, Powerball won August 24, 2018, by Mavis Wanczyk of Massachusetts. She chose the lump sum payment of $480 million.
6. $699.8 million dollar Powerball jackpot is won by a single ticket in California on October 4, 2021.
7. $687.8 million, Powerball won Oct. 27, 2018. There were two winning tickets. One in Iowa and another in New York.
8. $656 million, Mega Millions, won March 30, 2012, by three tickets, sold in Maryland, Illinois and Kansas. Cash: $471 million
9. $648 million, Mega Millions, won Dec. 17, 2013, in Georgia and California. Cash: $347.6 million.
10. $590.5 million, Powerball, won May 18, 2013, in Florida. Cash: $370.9 million.
11. $587.5 million, Powerball, won Nov. 28, 2012, by two tickets, sold in Missouri and Arizona. Cash: $384.7 million
12. $564 million, Powerball jackpot was won by one ticket in New Hampshire in the drawing on Saturday, January 6, 2018.
13. $559.7 million Powerball, A single ticket was sold at Reeds Ferry Market in Merrimack, NH. The winning ticket holder wants to remain anonymous.
14. $543 million Mega Millions. There was one winning ticket sold in California in the July 2018 drawing.
15. $536 million Mega Millions, a single ticket was sold in Indiana on July 8, 2016.
16. $530 million Mega Millions, one winning ticket was sold in California for the June 7, 2019 drawing.
17. $515 million Mega Millions, one ticket sold in Pennsylvania wins this big jackpot on Friday May 21, 2021.
18. $487 million Powerball, winning ticket was sold in New Hampshire on July 30, 2016
19. $455 million, Powerball, winning ticket was sold in Pennsylvania on March 17, 2018.
20. $450 million, Mega Millions ticket was sold in Florida for the January 5th, 2018 drawing.