A lucky Powerball player who bought a ticket in Sherman Oaks will be $1.4 million richer after matching five numbers in Monday’s drawing, but the lack of a jackpot winner across the country is sending the lottery game’s top prize into the financial stratosphere.

After no tickets with all six numbers were sold for Monday’s Powerball drawing, the ninth-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history, $1.3 billion, will be on the line Wednesday.

The numbers drawn Monday were 8, 23, 25, 40, 53, and the Powerball number was 5. The jackpot was $1.1 billion , the 11th-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.

There were 12 tickets matching five numbers but missing the Powerball number, including one sold at a gasoline station in Sherman Oaks that is worth $1,378,451, the California Lottery announce

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