There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in the latest drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery, pushing the estimated jackpot for Tuesday’s drawing to $30 million.
There were two tickets sold with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, lottery officials announced.
The one sold at a convenience store in the unincorporated Diamond Springs area near Sacramento is worth $97,455, 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, meaning they are determined by sales and the number of winners.
The ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, sold in Texas is worth $1 million.
The numbers drawn Friday were 3, 5, 12, 22, 66 and the Mega number was 7. The estimated jackpot was $20 million.
The drawing was the first 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 302,575,350, according to the California Lottery. 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
