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We also provide these information about California lottery: contact, address, phone number. Please refer to Resource Center. California (CA) lottery currently offers these lottery games: Powerball is drawn twice a week Wednesday and Saturday 7:59 PM; MEGA Millions is drawn twice a week Tuesday and Friday 8:00 PM. That is what California Mega Millions does for all of you.California Lottery was started in 1985 after lottery was legalised in California in the year 1984. Later California Lottery started participating in the already existing and popular lottery called Mega Millions, thereby giving birth to California Mega Million.

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SAN ANSELMO, CA – JANUARY 03: Powerball and Mega Millions lottery tickets are displayed on January 3, 2018 in San Anselmo, California. The Powerball jackpot and Mega Millions jackpots are both over $400 million at the same time for the first time. The Mega Millions $418 million jackpot would be the fourth largest and the $460 million Powerball jackpot would be the seventh largest in the game’s history. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, in Friday's drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery was sold at a supermarket in National City and is worth $576,869, the California Lottery announced.

California law requires major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis.

There were no tickets sold with all six numbers and the estimated jackpot for Tuesday's drawing will grow to $600 million.

One ticket each with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, were sold in Georgia, Massachusetts and New Jersey and are each worth $1 million, the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game, announced.

A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, sold in New York is worth $2 million because the player utilized the Megaplier option, where for an additional $1 any non-jackpot prize will be multiplied by the Megaplier number drawn.

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The numbers drawn Friday were 3, 6, 16, 18, 58 and the Mega number was 11. The estimated jackpot was $520 million.

The drawing was the 33rd since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.

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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

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