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.

A lucky person won the $1.22 billion Mega Millions jackpot after picking the winning numbers at a Cottonwood market.

Advice from state lottery officials to the winner: “sign the back of the ticket, keep it safe and don’t lose it.”

Two Mega Millions tickets sold in California won $787,543 each, lottery officials say. The tickets matched five winning numbers, but not the Mega Ball, in the drawing Friday, Dec. 27, the California Lottery said. The state adjusts prizes based on the number of tickets sold and number of winners.

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.

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.

The $1.26 billion Mega Millions lottery in Cottonwood is the largest win here but tickets worth big money have sold in this part of California before.