There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in the latest drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery, pushing the estimated jackpot for Tuesday’s drawing to $820 million, the eighth-largest U.S. lottery jackpot.
There were eight tickets sold with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, including one at a convenience store in Rancho Cucamonga that is worth $619,804, the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game, announced.
The other seven are each worth $1 million.
The reason for the difference is that California law requires major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis, meaning that payoffs can be both larger and smaller than those in other states.
The numbers drawn Friday were 29, 40, 47, 50, 57 and the Mega number was 25. The estimated jackpot was $720 million.
The drawing was the 27th 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 302,575,350, according to the California Lottery. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24.
The Mega Millions game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands.