There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in the latest drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery, pushing the estimated jackpot for Friday’s drawing to $150 million.
A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, was sold at a check cashing business in Lancaster and is worth $568,680, the California Lottery announced.
Tickets with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, sold outside California are worth $1 million or a multiple of $1 million. However, 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 Tuesday were 3, 19, 20, 22, 66 and the Mega number was 9. The estimated jackpot was $129 million.
The drawing was the eighth 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.