SACRAMENTO – Timothy Garner can give first hand testimony about the importance of carefully checking all California Lottery tickets.
The Riverside resident purchased a MEGA Millions® ticket for the December 5 draw and put it safely in his glove box. Several weeks later Garner retrieved his ticket from the glove box to check whether he had won. “I put it through the scanner,” Garner explained, “and it popped up a winner. I took the ticket to my car and gave a big holler!”
The MEGA Millions ticket, which was worth $158,981, was purchased at Albertsons in Riverside located at 2975 Van Buren Boulevard.
Lottery players can take another shot at a big jackpot Wednesday night. The jackpot for SuperLOTTO Plus is at $31 million. Tickets cost only $1 each and are available at more than 20,000 authorized retailers (www.calottery.com/locations).
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.