Mega Millions lottery ticket worth nearly $1.1 million sold at Pacoima market

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Wednesday, August 4, 2021
Mega Millions ticket worth nearly $1.1M sold in Pacoima
Check your tickets! A Mega Millions ticket worth nearly $1.1 million was sold at a Pacoima market.

PACOIMA, Calif. (KABC) -- Check your tickets! A Mega Millions ticket worth nearly $1.1 million was sold in Pacoima.

The ticket, which is worth $1,091,799, was sold at the Cortesia Market on Glenoaks Boulevard.

It matched 5 of the numbers, but not all 6.

The numbers drawn Tuesday were 1, 9, 17, 27, 34 with Mega number 24. The estimated jackpot was $179 million. The drawing was the 16th since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.

There were no tickets sold with all of the numbers, so Friday's jackpot grows to around $191 million, California Lottery officials said.

The odds of matching all five numbers and the Mega number are 1 in 302,575,350, according to the California Lottery. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24.

The Mega Millions game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands.

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City News Service contributed to this report.