One ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, for Friday night’s drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery was sold at Duarte Liquors in Duarte and is worth $604,409.
Another ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number was sold at a market in Alameda and is also worth $604,409, the California Lottery announced.
Three other tickets with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, were sold, two in New Jersey and one in New York and are each 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 Tuesday’s drawing will grow to $321 million.
The numbers drawn tonight were 11, 29, 36, 58, 67 and the Mega number was 15. The estimated jackpot was $284 million.
The drawing was the 20th 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