A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, in the latest drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery was sold in Torrance and is worth $3,665,298, the California Lottery announced Wednesday.
Tickets with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, sold outside California are worth a multiple of $1 million. However, California law requires major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis, meaning they are determined by sales and the number of winners.
The ticket’s base prize amount was $1,832,649, then doubled to $3,665,298 because the ticket’s multiplier was 2, according to the California Lottery. It would have been worth $2 million in other states, according to the Mega Millions Consortium, which conducts the game.
The ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, sold in New Jersey is worth $3 million because its multiplier was 3, the Mega Millions Consortium announced.
The numbers drawn Tuesday were 4, 13, 52, 53, 69 and the Mega number was 10. The estimated jackpot was $60 million.
The drawing was the second since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.
There were no tickets sold with all six numbers, pushing the estimated jackpot for Friday’s drawing to $70 million.
The odds of matching all six numbers and the Mega number is 1 in 290,472,336, according to the Mega Millions Consortium. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 23.
The Mega Millions game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands.