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2 Tickets to Split Mega Millions Jackpot
The numbers drawn were 8, 14, 17, 20, 39 and the Mega number was 7.
Two tickets with all six numbers in Tuesday night's multi-state Mega Millions draw were sold in San Jose and Georgia. Each is worth $318 million.
Two tickets with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, were sold in San Diego County, one at Fuller Liquor and Deli in San Diego, the other at Square Bottle Liquor in Chula Vista and are each worth $2,621,916, the California Lottery announced.
There were 18 other tickets sold with five numbers, but missing the Mega number. They are each worth $1 million.
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California law requires major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis.
The numbers drawn were 8, 14, 17, 20, 39 and the Mega number was 7.
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The estimated jackpot was $636 million, the second-largest lottery prize in U.S. history.
The drawing was the 22nd 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 258,890,850, according to the Mega Millions website. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 14.71.
The Mega Millions game is played in 43 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands.
Lottery officials urged winners to immediately sign the back of the tickets in ink and claim the prizes at the nearest California Lottery district office.
The jackpot for Friday's draw will be $15 million.
—City News Service.
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