A quick stop at a neighborhood liquor store in Live Oak turned into a five-figure score when a SuperLotto Plus ticket bought at M.G. Liquor & Grocery matched five of six numbers in Saturday's drawing for a $30,084 prize. The ticket missed the Mega number, so the $14 million top prize rolled over to the next drawing, and this win ended up as one of more than 85,000 SuperLotto payouts statewide that night.
Where the ticket was sold
The winning slip came from M.G. Liquor & Grocery at 2920 Pennington Road in Live Oak, about 55 miles north of Sacramento. The official results list the winning numbers as 1, 6, 8, 23 and 38 with Superball 22 and show that the only ticket to match five numbers but miss the Superball was sold at that store, according to the California Lottery.
The same results page notes that there were 85,302 winning SuperLotto Plus tickets across California in the drawing, with prize tiers starting at $1 and running up to $2,148 before jumping to the $30,084 haul for five-number winners.
Quick context
The Sacramento Bee reported the $30,084 payout and added that the next SuperLotto Plus drawing is expected to feature a $15 million jackpot with a cash option of about $6.7 million. As also noted by The Sacramento Bee, the previous SuperLotto Plus jackpot was hit on March 28 by a ticket sold in Fremont.
How to claim and get help
Winners have 180 days from the date of the drawing to claim prizes. Amounts up to $599 can be collected at participating retailers, while prizes of $600 or more must be claimed at a California Lottery district office or by mail, according to the California Lottery.
For anyone whose gambling habits start to feel less like fun and more like a problem, the National Council on Problem Gambling offers confidential help at 1-800-522-4700 and through resources available on its website at the National Council on Problem Gambling.
The odds of hitting the SuperLotto Plus jackpot sit at 1 in 41,416,353, so wins like this five-number score are far more common than landing the top prize. Anyone who picked up a ticket at the Live Oak liquor store around the drawing should give their slip a second look, since prizes under $600 can be cashed out at retail locations and bigger wins require a claim filed with Lottery offices or by mail.
