There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in Friday’s drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery, pushing the estimated jackpot for Tuesday’s drawing to $800 million.
A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, was sold at an Arco AM/PM at 27900 Date Palm Drive in Cathedral City and is worth $2,233,779, the California Lottery announced.
Tickets with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, sold in Florida, Illinois, New Hampshire and Texas are each worth $1 million, lottery officials said.
One sold in Ohio is worth $2 million because the player utilized the Megaplier option, where for an additional $1 any non-jackpot prize is multiplied by the Megaplier number drawn.
While tickets with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, sold in other states are worth $1 million or a multiple of $1 million, California law requires major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis, meaning they are determined by sales and the number of winners.
The numbers drawn Friday were 6, 23, 41, 59, 63 and the Mega number was 25. The estimated jackpot was $740 million.
It was the 26th drawing since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.
The odds of matching all five numbers and the Mega number are 1 in 302,575,350, according to the California Lottery. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24.
The Mega Millions game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands.