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Glendale Liquor Store Sells Winning Mega Millions Ticket With 5 Numbers Worth $245K

Check your tickets, Glendale! Someone is about to be $245, 984 richer.

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A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, in Tuesday night's drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery was sold at liquor store in Glendale and is worth $245,984, the California Lottery announced.

The ticket was sold at Ace Liquor located at 1740 S Victory Blvd.

Another ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, was sold at a gasoline station in Santa Maria and is also worth $245,984.

California law requires major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis.

One ticket each with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, was also sold in Florida, Georgia and Mississippi.

They are each worth $1 million, the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game, announced.

There were no tickets sold with all six numbers and the estimated jackpot for Friday's drawing will grow to $640 million.

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The numbers drawn Tuesday were 9, 13, 36, 59, 61 and the Mega number was 11. The estimated jackpot was $565 million.

The drawing was the 21st since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.

The odds of matching all five numbers and the Mega number are 1 in 302,575,350, according to the California Lottery. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24.

The Mega Millions game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands.

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