California Wins $51M Mega Millions on Tuesday

California's getting hotter. Since joining Mega Millions six years ago, this State has won the jackpot 16 times, moving it into 3rd place in the list of the hottest MM States.

The winning Mega Millions numbers for Tuesday May 03, 2011 were:

01 16 29 36 50 Megaball 16 - Megaplier 2

In this drawing, Lottery Power Picks recommended 380 combinations. Of these, we had 9 winners: (5) mb, (3) mb+1w, and (1) 3w, returning $26 back to our players. Our 5 number pool had 1,416,010 combinations. The first other winning combos were located at:

• 3-w @ # 174 - LPP Winner
• 3-w + Megaball @ # 3,940
• 4-w @ # 2,379
• 5-w @ # 133,651

There was one MM jackpot winner from California, so the jackpot resets to $12 million with a cash option of $7.6M and a yield of 4.09%