There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in the last drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery, pushing the estimated Friday jackpot to $331 million.
Three tickets with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, were sold, including one at a local Chevron gas station.
The ticket sold at the station, at 3774 Main St. in Shelltown, was worth $419,367, the California Lottery announced.
Tickets with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, sold in other states are worth $1 million or more, but 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 tickets with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, sold in Arizona and Florida are both worth $1 million.
The numbers drawn Tuesday were 26, 28, 36, 63, 66 and the Mega number was 15. The estimated jackpot was $306 million.
The drawing was the 12th since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.
The odds of matching all five numbers and the Mega number are 1 in 302.58 million according to the Multi-State Lottery Association. 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.
– City News Service