SACRAMENTO – Someone should be holding on tight to a MEGA Millions® ticket purchased in Fairfield. The California Lottery ticket holds five of six winning numbers from Friday night’s drawing. It is worth a sweet $1,125,150.
The MEGA Millions ticket was purchased near the entry to Travis Air Force Base. The retailer was Smoke Plus at 2151 North Texas Street. The winning numbers are 14, 15, 43, 46, 48 and the Mega number is 21. No one hit the grand prize, so Tuesday’s drawing will be for $23 million.
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.
Meantime, Lottery players can take another shot at a big jackpot tonight. The jackpot for SuperLOTTO Plus is $41 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 more than $20 billion to California schools out of total sales of nearly $55 billion. Retailers benefit too, earning $3.5 billion in compensation since 1985.