LOS ANGELES – 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 $165 million.
A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, was sold at a Chula Vista supermarket and is worth $154,910, 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 numbers drawn Friday were 5, 23, 26, 38, 44 and the Mega number was 25. The estimated jackpot was $140 million.
The drawing was the eighth since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.
The Mega Millions game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands.
