SACRAMENTO – No one picked all five winning numbers and the MEGA number to win Tuesday night’s top jackpot for MEGA Millions, but two tickets holding the first five numbers were sold in Southern California.
Those tickets are worth $174,574 each. One was sold in Riverside County and the other was sold in Orange County. The Riverside ticket was sold in Corona at a 7-Eleven at 702 West 6th Street. The Orange ticket was sold in Fountain Valley at a 7-Eleven at 10044 Ellis Avenue.
The California Lottery wants to remind winners to sign the back of their tickets, keep tickets in a safe place and contact Lottery officials or visit your local Lottery District Office (http://www.calottery.com/AboutUs/Locations) as soon as possible. Winners have 180 days from the date of the draw to claim prizes.
Without a grand prize winner in Tuesday night’s draw, the MEGA Millions jackpot grew to $87 million for Friday night’s draw.
More than 95 cents of every Lottery dollar is returned to the community in the form of contributions to education, prizes and retail commissions. The California Lottery contributes at least 34 cents of every dollar that players spend on Lottery products to public education and returns more than 50 percent of sales to players in the form of prizes. Since its inception in 1985, the Lottery has contributed more than $20 billion to California schools out of total sales of nearly $55 billion. Retailers benefit too, earning $3.5 billion in compensation since 1985.