SACRAMENTO – Two winning tickets were sold for last night’s MEGA Millions draw. The tickets were purchased in Palo Alto and Riverside and are each worth $158,981.
One ticket was purchased at Ernie’s Liquors located at 3870 El Camino Real in Palo Alto. The other was purchased at Albertson’s located at 2975 Van Buren Street in Riverside. The winning numbers were 21, 27, 46, 52, 55 and the Mega number was 14.
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.
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.