Mega Millions Jackpot Grows to $31 Million

There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in Thursday's drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery and the estimated jackpot for Tuesday's drawing will grow to $31 million.

Nine tickets -- two sold in California and one each in Massachusetts, Louisiana, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont --had five numbers, but didn't have the Mega number.

The tickets sold in California with five numbers were sold at a 7-Eleven store in San Clemente and a Market Basket store in Sacramento and are each worth $272,085, a California Lottery official announced. The other seven are each worth $250,000.

California law requires most major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis. The numbers drawn tonight were 2, 19, 20, 24, 33 and the Mega number was 39. The estimated jackpot was $20 million. The drawing was the second since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.

The odds of matching all five numbers and the Mega number is 1 in 175,711,536, according to the Mega Millions website. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 40.

The Mega Millions game is played in 42 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.