SACRAMENTO – Two California Lottery players are especially lucky on this Valentine’s Day weekend. That’s because Fantasy 5 tickets purchased in Palmdale and Westminster matched all five winning numbers in last night’s drawing to split a $200,850 jackpot.
The Palmdale ticket was purchased at the Desert View Superette, which is located at 864 W. Palmdale Blvd. The Westminster ticket was purchased at Gallop Liquor, which is located at 8950 Bolsa Ave. The winning numbers are 11, 16, 38, 34 and 7.
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 (www.calottery.com/AboutUs/Locations) as soon as possible. Tickets worth $600 or more must be claimed at a Lottery District Office. Winners have 180 days from the date of the draw to claim prizes.
Fantasy 5 offers some of the best odds of any California Lottery game. A player wins the Fantasy 5 jackpot simply by matching five numbers out of a field of 39. The top prize starts at $50,000 and can top $500,000 depending on how many times it rolls over (similar to SuperLOTTO Plus® and MEGA Millions®). Winning numbers are drawn every day. Tickets are $1 and can be purchased from any of the more than 20,000 California Lottery 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.
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