A ticket with five numbers, but missing the\u00a0Mega number, in Friday night’s multi-state\u00a0Mega\u00a0Millions lottery was sold at a pharmacy in Corona Del Mar and is worth $5,104,960.<\/p>\n
Tickets with five numbers, but missing the\u00a0Mega\u00a0number, 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.<\/p>\n
The ticket’s base prize amount was $2,552,480, then doubled to $5,104,960 because the ticket’s multiplier was 2, according to the California Lottery. It would have been worth $4 million in other states.<\/p>\n
There were no tickets sold with all six numbers, pushing the estimated jackpot for Tuesday’s drawing to $60 million.<\/p>\n
The numbers drawn Friday were 34, 38, 42, 44, 69 and the\u00a0Mega\u00a0number was 8. The estimated jackpot was $50 million.<\/p>\n
The drawing was the first since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.<\/p>\n
The odds of matching all five numbers and the\u00a0Mega\u00a0number is 1 in 290,472,336, according to the\u00a0Mega\u00a0Millions Consortium, which conducts the game. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 23.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Mega\u00a0Millions game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A ticket with five numbers, but missing the\u00a0Mega number, in Friday night’s multi-state\u00a0Mega\u00a0Millions lottery was sold at a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":429776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337,6411,33070,1036],"class_list":{"0":"post-429775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-lottery","14":"tag-newport-beach","15":"tag-orange-county"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115675174615488151","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}