Mega Millions jackpot grows to $285 million
FILE – Mega Millions Lottery play slips are displayed for customers at a convenience store in Chicago, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, file)
LOS ANGELES – There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in the latest drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery, pushing the estimated jackpot for Tuesday’s (Jan. 27) drawing to $285 million.
A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, was sold at a gasoline station-convenience store in Perris and is worth $1,265,778, the California Lottery announced.
Tickets with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, sold outside California are worth a multiple of $1 million. However, California law requires major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis, meaning they are determined by sales and the number of winners.
The ticket’s base prize amount was $421,926, then tripled to $1,265,778 because the ticket’s multiplier was 3, according to the California Lottery. It would have been worth $3 million in other states, according to the Mega Millions Consortium, which conducts the game.
The ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, sold in New York is worth $2 million because its multiplier was 2, the Mega Millions Consortium announced.
Winning numbers
The numbers drawn Friday were 30, 42, 49, 53, 66 and the Mega number was 4. The estimated jackpot was $266 million.
The drawing was the 15th since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.
The odds of matching all six numbers and the Mega number is 1 in 290,472,336, according to the Mega Millions Consortium. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 23.
The Mega Millions game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands. (CNS)
