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Winning Mega Millions Ticket Sold in San Clemente

A 7-Eleven in San Clemente sells ticket worth $272,085.

There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in Friday night's drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery, but one ticket sold in San Clemente is worth $272,085, a California Lottery official announced.

The estimated jackpot for Tuesday's drawing will grow to $31 million.

Daby Vemegas, a cashier on shift Saturday morning at the 7-Eleven on North El Camino Real, said story employees don't know any more details than what has been reported in the news.

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"We don't know anything about it; no one has come in to claim it yet," she said.

Nine tickets -- two sold in California and one each in Massachusetts, Louisiana, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont -- had five numbers, but didn't have the Mega number.

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The tickets in California with five numbers were sold at the 7-Eleven store at 1802 N. El Camino Real in San Clemente and a Market Basket store in Sacramento and are each worth $272,085. The other seven are each worth $250,000.

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

The numbers drawn Friday were 2, 19, 20, 24, 33 and the Mega number was 39. The estimated jackpot was $20 million.

The drawing was the second 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.


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