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Mega Millions Tickets Worth $200K Sold at York Boulevard Store
While there was no jackpot on Monday, one Highland Park customer is due for a big pay day.
There were no tickets containing all six winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the multi-stage Mega Millions lottery, but California Lottery officials that one customers has won a healthy pay day from a ticket purchased at Highland Park liquor store.
One ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, was sold at Mario's Liquor Store on York Boulevard. and is worth $205,234, a California Lottery official announced.
Five other tickets--two each sold in Ohio and Rhode Island and one in Maryland--also had five numbers, but didn't have the Mega number and are all worth $250,000.
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The numbers drawn tonight were 2, 5, 15, 18, 39 and the Mega number was 42. The estimated jackpot was $74 million. With no Jackpot winners on Monday, the grand total will grow to $83 million.
The drawing was the tenth since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold. 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.
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