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 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…