Mega Millions: 5-No. Ticket Bought at LB Gas Station

A Long Beach gas station sold one of two winning 5-number tickets for the Mega Millions lottery draw Friday night but there were no six-number winners for the giant multi-state jackpot, so Tuesday's drawing will grow to an estimated $114 million.

The tickets with five-numbers are each worth $122,730, but they were missing the Mega number; those two were sold at the World Express gas station at 2002 Del Amo Blvd. in Long Beach and a Rotten Robbie gas station in the Merced County unincorporated community of Santa Nella, a California Lottery official announced.

Four other tickets -- one each sold in Connecticut, Illinois, Texas and Virginia -- also had five numbers, but didn't have the Mega number and are all worth $250,000, a California Lottery official announced. California law requires major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis. The numbers drawn Friday night were 17, 42, 49, 54, 55 and the Mega number was 31.

The estimated jackpot was $103 million. The odds of matching all five numbers and the Mega number is 1 in 175,711,536, according to the Mega Millions website. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 40. The Mega Millions game is played in 42 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

--City News Service and Nancy Wride contributed to this report