Are You Holding the Winning Mega Millions Ticket Sold in Hollywood?

HOLLYWOOD, CA -- A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, in tonight's drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery was sold at a doughnut store in Hollywood and is worth $215,047.

Another tickets with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, was sold in Vermont and is worth $1 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game

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

There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in tonight's drawing and the estimated jackpot for Friday's drawing will grow to $61 million.

The numbers drawn tonight were 2, 43, 52, 62, 63 and the Mega number was 6. The estimated jackpot was $52 million.

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

The odds of matching all five numbers and the Mega number is 1 in 258,890,850, according to the Mega Millions website. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 14.71.

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

City News Service