Someone who bought a lottery ticket at a West Covina liquor store was just one number away from winning the ninth-largest jackpot in Mega Millions history.
A lottery ticket sold at a West Covina liquor store matched five of six numbers in Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing
The ticket matching five numbers, but missing the Mega number, is still worth a hefty sum of $285,828. It was sold at Keg Liquor in West Covina.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. Tickets with five numbers, but missing the Mega, sold in other states are worth $1 million or a multiple of $1 million. A ticket matching all numbers except the Mega was sold in Maryland.
The numbers drawn Tuesday were 19, 37, 40, 63, 69 and the Mega number was 17. It was the 20th drawing since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold on March 26. 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.
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