$2.3M Winning Mega Millions Ticket Sold in California as Jackpot Rolls to $508M

Temecula, CA – A lucky Californian may have not hit the overall jackpot in Tuesday night's massive Mega Millions lottery, but someone did score big.

A ticket worth $2,333,142 was sold in Southern California at the Postal Annex at 31938 Temecula Parkway, according to California Lottery officials. The ticket matched five numbers but was missing the Mega number.

The winner, who hasn't come forward just yet, has 180 days from Tuesday to come forward and claim his or her prize.

The store that sold the ticket will receive $11,665, according to California Lottery Spokeswoman Donna Cordova. That's whether or not the winner comes forward.

One ticket each with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, were also sold in Florida, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Texas. Those are each worth $1 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association which conducts the game.

Since no one did claim the jackpot on Tuesday, the Mega Millions prize will roll to Friday — at a whopping $508 million, according to lottery officials. If won, it would become the seventh largest American lottery jackpot ever.

There are only two Mega Millions jackpots in the history of the game to surpass that mark. Three tickets shared a $656 million jackpot in March 2012, and two winners shared $648 million in December 2013.

The largest jackpot ever won was in January, when a $1.586 billion prize was split by three tickets. One of those winners was also from Southern California, when a ticket was sold at a Chino Hills 7-Eleven.

The winner of that prize has still yet to come forward, according to Cordova. He or she has one year to claim their winnings.

(Patch file photo by Renee Schiavone)