A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, for tonight’s drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery was sold at a 7-Eleven store on Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood and is worth $255,171.
There were four other tickets -- two sold in New York and one each in Missouri and Washington State -- with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, 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.
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There were no tickets sold with all six numbers and the estimated jackpot for Friday’s drawing will grow to $180 million.
The numbers drawn tonight were 11, 37, 46, 64, 68 and the Mega number was 15. The estimated jackpot was $166 million.
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The drawing was the 15th 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.
--City News Service
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