SACRAMENTO – Someone came within one number of striking another SuperLOTTO Plus jackpot in Arcadia last night. This comes on the heels of an $11 million jackpot that hit less than two weeks ago only a few miles south in Temple City.
The ticket was purchased at the Huntington Chevron at 102 East Huntington Drive in Arcadia. It was worth $63,468. The winning ticket matched the first five numbers – 2, 22, 37, 42 and 45 – but failed to match the Mega number 19. If it had matched the Mega number, the winner would have won $11 million.
SuperLOTTO Plus is one of the most popular California Lottery games. More than 1 million winning tickets are sold in the SuperLOTTO Plus game alone every month.
California Lottery officials want to remind winners to sign the backs 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.
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 nearly $21 billion to California schools out of total sales of more than $56 billion. Retailers benefit too, earning $3.6 billion in compensation since 1985.