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There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in Friday night’s drawing of the 12-state Mega Millions lottery, causing the estimated jackpot for Tuesday’s drawing to grow to $252 million, California Lottery officials announced Friday night. You can watch Amy Murphy’s report in the video player. Twenty-four tickets — four sold in California, six in New Jersey, three each in Georgia and New York and two each in Michigan, Ohio, Texas and Virginia — had five numbers, but didn’t have the Mega number. All but the ones sold in California are each worth $250,000. The four tickets with five numbers sold in California are each worth $154,178. California law requires major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis. The numbers drawn Friday night were 9, 38, 44, 48, 49 and the Mega number was 13. The estimated jackpot was $207 million. The odds of matching all five numbers and the Mega number is 1 in 175,711,536, according to the Mega Millions Web site. The drawing was the 13t
The Mega Millions lottery results for August 21, 2009, were special because the Mega Millions August 21 drawing was the first one in which it had the mega jackpot of the moment. Mega Millions had to stay in Powerball’s shadow while their grand prize went over $250 million. But on August 21, Mega Millions officially had the biggest lottery jackpot, and it got even bigger when the lottery results had no big winner again. So after the August 21, 2009, drawing, it is Mega Millions that has the massive, $250 million jackpot of the moment now. The Mega Millions numbers for August 21 2009 were 9, 38, 44, 48, 49 with the Mega Ball at 13. No Mega Millions player hit all of those numbers, leaving the $207 million grand prize unclaimed. The Mega Millions numbers are now worth over $250 million after last night’s lottery results. Powerball’s recent big jackpot topped $250 million as well, before a winner finally emerged on Wednesday. But now, Powerball is starting from scratch while Mega Millions
