There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in Tuesday evening’s drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery, pushing the estimated jackpot for Friday’s drawing to $157 million.
A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, was sold at a convenience store in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Moraga and is worth $401,252, the California Lottery announced.
Tickets with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, sold outside California are worth 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 ticket’s base prize amount was $100,313, then quadrupled to $401,252 because the ticket’s multiplier was 4, according to the California Lottery. It would have been worth $4 million in other states, according to the Mega Millions Consortium, which conducts the game.
The numbers drawn Tuesday were 18, 43, 49, 63, 69 and the Mega number was 6.The estimated jackpot was $138 million.
The drawing was the eighth since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.
The odds of matching all six numbers and the Mega number is 1 in 290,472,336, according to the Mega Millions Consortium. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 23.
The Mega Millions game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands.