California Lottery ticket
California lottery ticket. Photo credit: Alexander Nguyen

A ticket with five numbers in Tuesday night’s  multi-state Mega Millions lottery, but missing the Mega number, was sold in San Jose and is worth $463,395.

There were no tickets sold with all six numbers sold and the estimated jackpot for Friday’s drawing is expected to grow to $43 million.

The numbers drawn tonight were 37, 39, 53, 68, 75 and the Mega number was 6. The estimated jackpot was $35 million.

The drawing was the fourth since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.

The odds of matching all five numbers and the Mega number is 1 in 258,890,850, according to the Mega Millions website. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 14.71.

The Mega Millions game is played in 43 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands.

—City News Service

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