A Powerball player in California missed out on the $163 million jackpot but still won $29,466, lottery officials said. The ticket in the Dec. 30 drawing matched four winning Powerball numbers plus the Powerball, according to the California Lottery.

At least one Mega Millions player has plenty of dough to ring in the New Year after drawing the winning number. After three months without anyone winning the top prize in the lottery, a ticket worth an estimated $1.

Friday’s jackpot was the fifth-largest Mega Millions prize in US history and the winning ticket was sold at Sunshine Food and Gas in Cottonwood, a census-designated area with a population of about 6,000 people, in Shasta County, about 150 miles north of Sacramento . The identity of the winner (or winners) wasn’t immediately known.

The California Lottery announced in a post on X that the winning $1.269 billion Mega Millions ticket, which has a cash value of $571.9 million, was purchased at a Circle K (Sunshine Food and Gas) at 3505 Rhonda Road in Cottonwood.

While the billion-dollar Mega Millions ticket was sold in the Shasta County community of Cottonwood, a Roseville gas station sold one of two tickets in the state that matched five numbers. A Chevron station located at 1400 Blue Oaks Blvd in Roseville sold a ticket that matched five numbers for a prize amount

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A single ticket sold in California matched the winning numbers from the Friday, Dec. 27, 2024, Mega Millions drawing, winning a $1.22 billion jackpot.

COTTONWOOD, Calif. – A single ticket sold in Northern California matched all six numbers – white balls 3, 7, 37, 49, 55 and Mega Ball 6 – to win the $1.22 billion jackpot in Friday night’s Mega Millions drawing, according to lottery officials.

After three months without anyone winning the top prize, a ticket worth an estimated $1.22 billion was sold in California for the drawing Friday night.

Twenty-four lottery players in New Jersey won $10,000 or more last week playing Powerball, Mega Millions and New Jersey Lottery games.

A New Yorker has stepped up to claim a $1 million Mega Millions prize, according to New York Lottery officials. Adam Terzuoli, of Washingtonville, in Orange County, has claimed a $1,000,000 second prize for matching the first five Mega Millions numbers drawn on Sept.