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Two Winners to Split $400M Lottery Jackpot

The winners live in Florida and Maryland.

One ticket each with all six numbers in Tuesday night's multi-state Mega Millions draw was sold in Florida and Maryland and its owners will split a $400 million jackpot.

There were eight tickets sold with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, including one sold in a liquor store in San Bruno in Northern California, the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game, announced.

The ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, sold in California is worth $1,962,339.

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The other seven are each worth $1 million. Two each were sold in Florida and New York and one each in Illinois, Maryland and Texas.

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

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The numbers drawn were 11, 19, 24, 33, 51 and the Mega number was 7.

The drawing was the 21st 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 258,890,850, according to the Mega Millions website. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 14.71.

The Mega Millions game is played in 43 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands.

The jackpot for Friday's draw will be $15 million.

—City News Service


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