A ticket for Saturday evening’s drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, was sold at a Sacramento gasoline station and is worth $3,238,814, the California Lottery announced.
Another ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, was sold in Texas and is 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. The estimated jackpot for Tuesday’s drawing will grow to $458 million.
The numbers drawn Friday were 4, 8, 23, 53, 59 and the Mega number was 17. The estimated jackpot was $421 million.
The drawing was the 22nd 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 303 million, according to the California Lottery. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24.
The Mega Millions game is played in 44 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands.