Mega Million Lottery Ticket Worth $630,000 Sold in South Bay

LOS ANGELES, CA -- A ticket with five numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery, but missing the Mega number, was sold at Mel & Leo's Liquor store in Hawthorne and is worth $630,297, the California Lottery announced.

Another ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, was sold in Maryland and is worth $1 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.

There were no tickets sold with all six numbers and the estimated jackpot for Friday's drawing will grow to $30 million.

The numbers drawn Tuesday were 23, 28, 37, 56, 71 and the Mega number was 12. The estimated jackpot was $25 million.

The drawing was the third 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.

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