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Winning Lottery Ticket Sold At LA Gas Station

Are you holding the winning Mega Millions lottery ticket?

LOS ANGELES, CA — A Mega Millions lottery ticket worth more than $200,000 was sold in a Los Angeles Westside neighborhood.

There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in the latest drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions, but one ticket with five winning numbers was sold at a Chevron gas station Centinela Avenue, lottery officials announced. It was missing the mega number. The ticket is worth $213,817, the California Lottery announced. The numbers drawn Tuesday were 4, 15, 37, 59, 64 and the Mega number was 16.

Now Friday's jackpot will grow to an estimated $96 million. The drawing was the sixth since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.

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The odds of matching all five numbers and the Mega number are 1 in 302,575,350, according to the California Lottery. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24.

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

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City News Service and Patch Staffer Paige Austin contributed to this report. Photo: Shutterstock

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