California could be the luckiest state to win huge jackpots

Another ticket to a big lottery win sold in california — Probably the luckiest state in America.

One ticket to win white balls 7, 10, 11, 13 and 24 and a red Powerball 24 in Wednesday’s draw sold for $1.08 billion at the Las Palmitas Mini Market at 1205 Wall Street in Los Angeles, lottery officials said.

In other words, 3 of the last 10 biggest jackpot winners have purchased tickets at Golden State. The mammoth $2.04 billion jackpot winner bought a ticket at Altadena last November. In 2016, one of the three winning tickets was sold at Chino Hills. And in 2021, a fourth winner bought a $699.8 million ticket for Morro Bay’s 11th biggest jackpot. No other state can match that many winning tickets.

Here’s a list of the top 10 US jackpots ever won and the states where the winning tickets were sold, according to the Associated Press.

1. $2.04 Billion, Powerball, November 8, 2022 (1 ticket, out of California)

2. $1.586 billion, Powerball, January 13, 2016 (3 tickets, from California, Florida and Tennessee)

3. $1.537 billion, Mega Millions, Oct. 23, 2018 (1 ticket, out of South Carolina)

4. $1.35 billion, Mega Millions, January 13, 2023 (1 ticket, out of Maine)

5. $1.337 billion, Mega Millions, July 29, 2022 (single ticket, out of Illinois)

6. $1.08 billion, Powerball, July 19, 2023 (1 ticket, out of California)

7. $1.05 Billion, Mega Millions, January 22, 2021 (1 ticket, out of Michigan)

8. $768.4 million, Powerball, March 27, 2019 (1 ticket, from Wisconsin)

9. $758.7 million, Powerball, August 23, 2017 (1 ticket, from Massachusetts)

10. $731.1 million, Powerball, January 20, 2021 (single ticket, out of Maryland)