A $14 million lotto ticket was sold Saturday, one of three big winners across Southern California on a day where many played the lottery looking to win many millions of dollars, according to the California Lottery.
While no one hit the $380 million jackpot available in Powerball, three tickets were sold that were worth at least $1.3 million, Lottery officials said.
Two players in Los Angeles and Norco came close to splitting the jackpot, matching five of six Powerball numbers. Their tickets, which haven't yet been claimed, have a pretax value of $1,388,464.
The next Powerball drawing is Wednesday night. The pot is estimated at $450 million, making it the fifth largest jackpot in U.S. history and the third largest in Powerball history.
Those two winning tickets pale in comparison to the $14 million Super Lotto Plus winner sold Saturday at a Glendale doughnut shop, according to the lottery. They matched six numbers in the game, making whoever claims the ticket eligible for $9.5 million in a lump-sum payment or the entire amount over 30 years.
The $14 million payout was a boom for the shop that sold the winning ticket, which wins a small bonus payout for itself.
When lottery officials broke the news to Hovik Cholakian, the shop's owner, he screamed with excitement, according to the lottery news release.
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"This is my first big win. I'm very excited," Cholakian told the lottery. "We work very hard, 12-13 hours a day, seven days a week. Having $70,000 (come in) is a lot of money for us!"
Top Powerball Jackpots All Time
$590.5 million: won 5/18/2013 in Florida
$587.5 million: won 11/28/2012 in Missouri, Arizona
$450 million: next draw Wednesday, Feb. 11.
$448.4 million: won 8/7/2013 in Minnesota, New Jersey
$425.3 million: Won 2/19/2014 in California
(Source: California Lottery)