Overview

• Monday’s winning numbers were 8, 23, 25, 40, 53 and Powerball 5 with a Power Play of 3, according to Powerball officials.
• Two tickets worth $2 million were sold in Montana and North Carolina, and ten $1 million tickets were sold in California, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey (two), New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
• A California ticket matching five numbers without the Powerball, sold at a 76 station on Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks, is worth about $1.38 million under the state’s pari-mutuel rules.
• Wednesday’s jackpot offers an annuity estimated at $1.30 billion or a cash option of about $589 million before taxes, with 24% federal withholding applied upfront and potential additional federal and state taxes.
• Powerball says the jackpot ranks fifth-largest in game history and ninth-largest in U.S. lottery history, with odds of winning the top prize at about 1 in 292.2 million.