LOS ANGELES (CNS) – A ticket with all six numbers in Tuesday evening’s multi- state Mega Millions lottery draw was sold in Texas and the player has the option of receiving $800 million, the seventh-largest jackpot in the history of the game, in 30 graduated annual installments or a lump sum cash payment of $404.2 million before federal taxes.
The jackpot is the 13th-largest in U.S. history. There have been six Powerball drawings with larger jackpots, according to lottery officials.
There were four tickets sold with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, including one at lottery retailer on the California-Nevada border in the small unincorporated community of Floriston, 10 miles east-northeast of Truckee. It is worth $605,656, according to the California Lottery.
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.
The tickets with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, sold in Florida, New York and Washington are each worth $1 million, lottery officials said.
The numbers drawn Tuesday were 1, 2, 16, 24, 66 and the Mega number was 6. It was the 27th drawing since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold on June 4.
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 began in 1996 as The Big Game and was given the new name Mega Millions in 2002.
The Mega Millions game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands.
The jackpot for Friday’s drawing will be $20 million.
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