SACRAMENTO – Although no one matched all six numbers in the MEGA Millions drawing last night, more than 359,090 California players won $2,656,682 in prizes.
Two Northern California players won the 5 of 5 prize, each ticket is worth more than $425,673. Those winning tickets were bought at 7-Eleven located at 8499 Gerber Road in Sacramento and at Fast & Easy Liquors located at 4475 Treat Blvd., Suite B in Concord. If you are a winner, the Lottery wants to remind you to sign your ticket, put it in a safe place and contact Lottery officials or visit your local Lottery District Office (http://www.calottery.com/AboutUs/Locations) as soon as you can.
Players have another chance to win big money with tonight’s SuperLOTTO Plus jackpot which is at $86 million or Friday night’s MEGA Millions jackpot now at $325 million.
Players of either game may purchase tickets for the current jackpots until 7:45 p.m. on the evening of the draw; MEGA Millions tonight (Tuesday) and SuperLOTTO Plus on Wednesday. Tickets for all Lottery games are available at the Lottery’s over 19,000 retail locations statewide.
As the jackpots rise, the California Lottery would like to remind players that gambling should be fun. If you think that you or someone you care about might have a gambling problem, call the California Problem Gambling Help Line at 1-800-GAMBLER.
The California State 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 $19 billion to California schools out of total sales of more than $52 billion. Retailers win too, earning $3.3 billion in compensation since 1985.