Less than a week after the California Lottery produced the state’s first ever lottery-made billionaire, a pair of South Bay players won their own (much smaller) slice of the pie Monday night.
Tickets worth $247,684 each were sold in Santa Clara and Sunnyvale after they matched all five numbers in Monday’s Fantasy 5 drawing. The tickets, sold at a 7-Eleven and a Chevron gas station, respectively, were two of four winners of Monday’s top prize. The other two winning tickets were sold in Santa Ynez and Sacramento.
The winning numbers were 2, 6, 7, 11 and 28. The total jackpot, which was split between the four winners, totaled over $990,000.
Luckily for those winners, California is one of nine states that don’t impose state taxes on lottery winnings, so much of those winnings can go straight to the bank. The Bay Area in particular is on a hot streak, with a few winning tickets coming from the region in the past few weeks.
