Winning Mega Millions Lottery Ticket Sold In San Gabriel Valley

SAN GABRIEL VALLEY, CA — If you purchased a Mega Millions ticket in San Gabriel Valley you might just have a million dollars waiting for you.

A ticket matching five numbers, but missing the Mega number, was sold in Arcadia at a Chevron station.

Two other locations in Los Angeles County in the record- setting multi-state Mega Millions lottery draw, the California Lottery announced Wednesday: one was sold at a 7-Eleven store in Chatsworth and another at a Circle K convenience store in Norwalk.

They are each worth $562,472. Five other tickets matching five numbers, but missing the Mega number, were sold elsewhere in California.

A total of 28 tickets matching five numbers but missing the Mega number were sold outside of California. Each of those tickets is worth $1 million, except for one each sold in Florida and Texas, where the players utilized the Megaplier option which made the tickets worth $3 million, the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game, announced.

California law requires major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis.

A ticket sold in South Carolina had all six numbers. Its owner has the option of accepting a lump sum payment of $913.7 million or the world- record $1.6 billion jackpot paid out over 30 installments.

The numbers drawn Tuesday were 5, 28, 62, 65, 70 and the Mega number was 5.

The drawing was the 26th since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.

The previous record was $1.586 billion for the Jan. 13, 2016, Powerball drawing.

The odds of matching all five numbers and the Mega number is 1 in 302,575,350, according to the California Lottery.

The Mega Millions game is played in 44 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands.

--City News Service, with Patch Editor Ashley Ludwig contributing/Patch file photo by Alexander Nguyen