{"id":148157,"date":"2026-01-24T20:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/148157\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T20:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:10:18","slug":"mega-millions-jackpot-surges-to-285-million-perris-ticket-wins-1-26-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/148157\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega Millions jackpot surges to $285 Million; Perris ticket wins $1.26 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG-20140710-01000-e1405028807944.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769285418_962_IMG-20140710-01000-e1405028807944-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Lottery tickets\" class=\"wp-image-6575\"  \/><\/a>California lottery ticket. (File photo by Alexander Nguyen\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n<p>The Mega Millions jackpot is on the move again after no tickets matched all six numbers in the latest drawing, pushing the estimated jackpot for Tuesday\u2019s drawing to $285 million.<\/p>\n<p>In Southern California, one ticket came close. A ticket matching five numbers but missing the Mega number was sold at a gas station\u2013convenience store in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofperris.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Perris <\/a>and is worth $1,265,778, according to the California Lottery.<\/p>\n<p>In most states, tickets that match five numbers but miss the Mega number carry a flat $1 million prize. California plays by different rules. Under state law, major lottery prizes are paid on a pari-mutuel basis, meaning payouts are based on ticket sales and the number of winning tickets.<\/p>\n<p>The Perris ticket had a base prize of $421,926, which was tripled to $1,265,778 after a 3x multiplier was applied, the California Lottery reported. In other states, that same ticket would have been worth $3 million, according to the Mega Millions Consortium, which conducts the game.<\/p>\n<p>Another ticket matching five numbers but missing the Mega number was sold in New York and is worth $2 million after its 2x multiplier was applied, the consortium announced.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers drawn Friday were 30, 42, 49, 53, 66, with the Mega number 4. The estimated jackpot for that drawing was $266 million.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s drawing marked the 15th since the last time a ticket matched all six numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The odds of matching all five numbers plus the Mega number remain long \u2014 1 in 290,472,336, according to the Mega Millions Consortium. The overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 23.<\/p>\n<p>Mega Millions is played in 45 states, as well as the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013City News Service contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California lottery ticket. (File photo by Alexander Nguyen\/Times of San Diego) The Mega Millions jackpot is on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[73566,61656,1047,29482,172,74,76,75,211,63041],"class_list":["post-148157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-285-million","tag-january-2026","tag-mega-millions","tag-numbers","tag-perris","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-ticket","tag-winning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}