SACRAMENTO – A Pasadena man won $220,778 by picking five of six numbers in last Friday’s MEGA Millions draw.
The man – who requested anonymity – spent $5 on tickets for the $336 million MEGA Millions draw of last Friday, and gave those tickets away as a gift. He later bought four tickets for the same draw for himself – one of which turned out to be the nearly quarter-million-dollar win.
The big winner says he will put some money away for taxes, and while he has no immediate plans for the rest, he says he will “spend it wisely.”
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.