California Sells itsThird Winning Mega Millions Ticket this Year

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The State of California had its 3rd Mega Millions winner in last nights drawing worth $64 million.  The last two times they won was $266M on May 4th, and $133M on March 5th. At this pace, they might match last years total of 5 winning tickets.

The winning Mega Millions numbers for Friday Jul 16, 2010 were:

02 15 18 20 39 Megaball 34 - Megaplier 3

In this drawing, Lottery Power Picks recommended 303 combinations. Of these, we had 7 winners: (2) mb, (4) mb+1w, and (1) mb+2w, returning $26 back to our players. Our 5 number pool had 1,512,670 combinations. The first other winning combos were located at:

• 3-w @ # 330
• 3-w + Megaball @ # 13,714
• 4-w @ # 99,348
• 5-w @ # - na -

There was one MM jackpot winner from California so the jackpot resets to $12 million with a cash option of $7.9M and a yield of 3.71%