A ticket for Tuesday evening’s drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, was sold at an Anaheim liquor store and is worth $97,685, the California Lottery announced.
Four other tickets with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, were sold — two in Texas and one each in Virginia and Washington State, the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game, announced. They are each worth $1 million.
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 Friday’s drawing will grow to $45 million.
The numbers drawn Tuesday were 8, 15, 39, 64, 67 and the Mega number was 13. The estimated jackpot was $40 million.
The drawing was the first 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 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 44 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands.