Three other tickets with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number were sold in California, one each in Auburn, Nipomo and Los Banos. They were also worth $554,808, the California Lottery announced.
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There was also one ticket each sold in South Carolina and Tennessee with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number. They are both worth $1 million, the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game, announced.
California law requires major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis.
There were no tickets sold with all six numbers and the estimated jackpot for Monday's drawing is expected to grow to $416 million.
The numbers drawn Saturday were 27, 29, 45, 55, 58 and the Powerball number was 2. The jackpot was $400 million.
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The drawing was the 35th since a ticket with all six numbers was sold.
The odds of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number is 1 in about 293 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24.87.
The Powerball game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.