A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, in the latest drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery was sold in Torrance and is worth $3,665,298, the California Lottery announced Wednesday.
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 $1,832,649, then doubled to $3,665,298 because the ticket’s multiplier was 2, according to the California Lottery. It would have been worth $2 million in other states, according to the Mega Millions Consortium, which conducts the game…