Do You Have $100 Million Reasons To Call In Sick Monday?
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Do you have $100 million reasons not to go to work Monday?
The numbers in tonight's multi-state Mega Millions draw are 4, 12, 29, 49, 51 and the Mega number is 44.
The estimated jackpot is $100 million. If no tickets are sold with all six numbers, the jackpot for the next drawing, scheduled for Tuesday, would rise to $116 million, a California Lottery official said.
(UPDATE -- Saturday morning 12:30 a.m.) No ticket matched all six numbers. (Two Californians had five numbers and each will pocket $202,991. Seven other tickets -- including two in New York, and one each in Illinois, Michigan, Oregon, Ohio and Virginia, also had five numbers. Those tickets are worth $250,000 each. California law requires most major lottery wins to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis, hence the lower amount.)
The drawing was the 11th 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. Overall chances of winning a prize are 1 in 40.
The Mega Millions game is played in 41 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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