A Mega Tens of millions ticket offered at a Van Nuys liquor retailer was one among 13 nationwide that matched 5 numbers in Tuesday night time’s drawing.
It wasn’t the 1.13 billion jackpot — the eighth-largest prize in U.S. lottery historical past was gained by somebody who purchased a ticket in New Jersey — however the ticket continues to be price a hefty $1,058,180. The ticket offered at D & Ok Liquor within the 15000 block of Saticoy Road in Van Nuys matched 5 numbers, simply lacking the Mega quantity.
Tickets with 5 numbers, however lacking the Mega quantity, offered in different states are price $1 million or a a number of of $1 million. California legislation requires main payoffs of lottery video games to be paid on a pari-mutuel foundation, which means they’re decided by gross sales and the variety of winners.
There are a number of methods to win cash within the Mega Tens of millions drawing. Twenty-four tickets matched 4 numbers plus the Mega for a prize of $6,108. 5-hundred fifth tickets matched 4 however missed the Mega for a $300 prize.
The opposite tickets matching 5 numbers had been offered in New York, Florida, Georgia, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio.
The numbers drawn Tuesday had been 7, 11, 22, 29, 38 and the Mega quantity was 4. It was the thirty first drawing because the final time a ticket with all six numbers was offered on Dec. 8.
The biggest Mega Tens of millions jackpot ever, price $1.602 billion, was offered on Aug. 8, 2023, in Florida. The final time somebody gained the sport’s high prize was on Dec. 8, 2023, when two profitable tickets had been offered on the identical gasoline station in Los Angeles, splitting the $394 million prize.
The percentages of matching all 5 numbers and the Mega quantity are 1 in 302,575,350, in line with the Multi-State Lottery Affiliation. The general likelihood of profitable a prize is 1 in 24.
The subsequent large U.S. lottery drawing will likely be Wednesday night time for an estimated $865 million Powerball jackpot. Nobody has gained that prize since New 12 months’s Day, making for 36 drawings and not using a winner.
Lottery gamers in California have gained or shared within the winnings of the top-four largest jackpots in Powerball historical past relationship to 2016. All had been price $1 billion.
Virtually all lottery draw video games in California permit for 180 days from the date of the draw to assert a prize. The exceptions are Powerball and Mega Tens of millions jackpots, which have a one-year deadline.
Claiming a prize of greater than $600 requires an intensive declare course of. A winner’s full title, the title and placement of the retailer who offered the profitable ticket, the draw date of the win and the quantity, together with gross and web installment funds, are all thought of issues of public document and topic to disclosure.
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