Community Corner
RSM Biz Sells A Mega Millions Winner Worth $179K
Tuesday night's winning numbers provided a nice booty. A Rancho Santa Margarita Circle K sold a ticket that matched all but the Mega number.
One ticket with all six numbers in Tuesday night's multi-state Mega Millions draw was sold at a Pomona water store.
The ticket's owner must decide whether to accept the estimated cash value of $24.2 million or receive 26 annual payments of approximately $1.23 million each before taxes.
A little closer to home, a California Lottery official said that a Circle K market at 31521 Santa Margarita Parkway in Rancho Santa Margarita sold one of four tickets that had five numbers—but not the Mega number—and is worth $179,442.
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The other three were sold in Illinois, Michigan and New Hampshire and are each worth $250,000.
California law requires major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis.
Find out what's happening in Rancho Santa Margaritawith free, real-time updates from Patch.
The numbers drawn were 2, 14, 29, 53, 55 and the Mega number was 31. The estimated jackpot was $32 million.
The drawing was the fourth since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.
The odds of matching all five numbers and the Mega number is 1 in 175,711,536, according to the Mega Millions website. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 40.
The Mega Millions game is played in 42 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The jackpot for Friday's draw will be $12 million.
—City News Service
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