Feeling Lucky? No Tickets Sold With All Six Mega Millions Lottery Numbers

By Debbie L. Sklar, Times of San Diego

April 26, 2023

There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in Tuesday evening’s drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery and the estimated jackpot for Friday’s drawing will grow to $38 million.

A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, was sold at a deli in San Francisco and is worth $178,032, the California Lottery announced.

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.

The numbers drawn Tuesday were 8, 29, 46, 47, and 48 and the Mega number was 12. The estimated jackpot was $26 million.

The drawing was the second 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 Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24.

The Mega Millions game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. Virgin Islands.

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