A Mega Millions ticket matching five numbers, but missing the Mega number, worth $245,984 in Tuesday's drawing was sold at a liquor store in Glendale, the California Lottery announced.
With no one winning the lottery game’s top prize Tuesday night, it has now been 21 straight drawings without anyone matching all six numbers.
The huge jackpot comes less than two months after the largest lottery prize ever, a $2.04 billion Powerball prize that wasThe reason for all the big prizes is simple — long odds ensure there are few winners and the long streaks of lottery futility allow jackpots to grow ever larger week after week.The advertised jackpot of $640 million is for a winner who opts to be paid with an annuity, doled out through annual payments over 29 years.
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