Are You Holding The $286K Mega Millions Ticket Sold In LA County?

LOS ANGELES, CA — One lucky lottery player came up one number shy of the $560 million Mega Millions jackpot Tuesday but still managed to win $285,828, according to the California Lottery.

Tuesday's jackpot was the ninth-largest jackpot in the history of the game, and the winning ticket was sold in Illinois. The ticket with five winning numbers but missing the Mega number was sold in West Covina and is worth $285,828, according to the California Lottery. The winner purchased the ticket at Keg Liquor at 1915 West San Bernardino Road.

The numbers drawn Tuesday were 19, 37, 40, 63, 69 and the Mega number was 17. It was the 20th drawing since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold on March 26.

While tickets with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, sold in other states are worth $1 million or a multiple of $1 million, 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 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.

City News Service contributed to this report.