$1 Million Mega Millions ticket sold at Newport Coast supermarket

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Saturday, August 17, 2024
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NEWPORT COAST, Calif. (CNS) -- 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 $498 million.

A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, was sold at a supermarket in Orange County's Newport Coast and is worth $1,016,356, the California Lottery announced.

Another ticket matching five numbers, but missing the Mega number, was sold in New Jersey and is worth $1 million. 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 numbers drawn Friday were 22, 38, 48, 51, 61 and the Mega number was 5. The estimated jackpot was $464 million.

It was the 20th drawing 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.

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