Winning $2.6 Million-Plus Mega Millions Lottery Ticket Sold In LA

Los Angeles CA

27 October, 2021

1:18 PM

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LOS ANGELES, CA — A Golden State liquor store patron nabbed a $2.6 million ticket this week in Tuesday evening's drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions — but they missed the Mega number. The drawing was the first since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold. The ticket was sold at Jerry's Liquor in Sun Valley and is worth $2,694,898, the California Lottery announced. The Mega number was 9 and the estimated jackpot would have been $20 million had they picked it. No tickets were sold with all six numbers, so the estimated jackpot for Friday's drawing will swell to a whopping $22 million. Here were the numbers drawn on Tuesday: 6 14 195662 The odds of matching all five numbers and the Mega number are slim — 1 in 302,575,350, according to the California Lottery. And the overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24. Golden State laws require major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis. The Mega Millions game is played in California and 44 other states, the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands.