There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in Wednesday's SuperLotto Plus drawing and the jackpot for Saturday's drawing will increase to $8 million.
Two tickets with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, were sold
and are each worth $24,354, a California Lottery official announced.
The numbers drawn tonight were 2, 9, 24, 33, 37 and the Mega number was
1. The jackpot was $7 million.
The drawing was the first 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
41,416,353, according to the SuperLotto Plus web site.
You can buy tickets at local liquor/party stores, gas stations and grocery stores.
--City News Service
According to Wired magazine: "While approximately half of Americans buy at least one lottery ticket at some point, the vast majority of tickets are purchased by about 20 percent of the population. These high-frequency players tend to be poor and uneducated, which is why critics refer to lotteries as a regressive tax. (In a 2006 survey, 30 percent of people without a high school degree said that playing the lottery was a wealth-building strategy.) On average, households that make less than $12,400 a year spend 5 percent of their income on lotteries -- a source of hope for just a few bucks a throw."