A ticket with all six numbers in Friday evening’s multi-state Mega Millions draw was sold in Florida and its owner must decide whether to receive the $560 million jackpot in 30 installments or its estimated $350 million cash value.
A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, was sold at a convenience store in Daly City and is worth $1,860,394, the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game, announced.
Seven other tickets with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, were sold — two each in Oklahoma and Texas and one each in Massachusetts and Tennessee and Virginia. They are each worth $1 million, the association announced.
California law requires major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis.
The numbers drawn Friday were 28, 30, 39, 59, 70 and the Mega number was 10.
The drawing was the 24th 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 44 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands.
The jackpot for Tuesday’s drawing will be $40 million.
— City News Service