A Northern California Powerball ticket bought in San Jose fell short of last Saturday's advertised $216 million jackpot but still hit for a tidy $44,744. The ticket matched four white balls plus the Powerball in the April 4 drawing and included the Power Play multiplier.
The winning numbers were 3, 6, 13, 41 and 65 with Powerball 1, and the Power Play multiplier was 4x, according to Powerball. No one nationwide matched all six numbers, so the giant jackpot rolled over to the next game.
The five-figure winner was sold at the Chevron at 3939 Snell Ave. in San Jose, The Sacramento Bee reported. The identity of the ticket holder has not been made public.
Draw Results And What They Mean
With no jackpot winner last Saturday, today's drawing was set at an estimated $231 million with a cash option of about $105 million, according to Powerball. That drawing also produced at least one $1 million Match-5 winner in Texas, along with thousands of smaller prizes around the country.
Why The Payout Was $44,744 And How To Claim
Although the Match-4 plus Powerball prize tier appears as a standard category on national prize charts, California pays non-jackpot Powerball prizes on a pari-mutuel basis. The state's draw report shows one ticket in that tier paying $44,744, with a total of 79,383 winning tickets across all tiers statewide. The California Lottery notes that non-jackpot draw prizes must be claimed within 180 days, while jackpot winners have up to one year to come forward.
