Winning Mega Millions Ticket Sold In Temecula: Match 5 Ticket Sold

TEMECULA, CA — If you bought a Mega Millions California Lottery ticket in Temecula this week, pay attention.

A ticket matching five numbers, missing the Mega number, in Tuesday evening's drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery, was sold at a market in Temecula, the California Lottery announced. That ticket was worth approximately $85,202.

Another ticket with five numbers but missing the Mega number was sold at a gas station in American Canyon, about 35 miles northeast of San Francisco, and is also worth $85,202.

The ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, sold in Virginia is worth $3 million because the player utilized the Megaplier option, where for an additional $1 any non-jackpot prize is multiplied by the Megaplier number drawn, the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game, announced.

Why different amounts?

While tickets with five numbers but missing the Mega number, sold in other states are worth $1 million or a multiple of $1 million, California law requires major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis, meaning they are determined by sales and the number of winners.

There were no tickets sold with all six numbers, pushing the estimated jackpot for Friday's drawing to $187 million.

The numbers drawn Tuesday were 12, 15, 32, 33, 53 and the Mega number was 24.

The estimated jackpot was $165 million.

The drawing was the ninth since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.
The odds of matching all five numbers and the Mega number are 1 in 302,575,350, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24.
The Mega Millions game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands.

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