People heading to their lucky stores ahead of Mega Millions drawing

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Time is moving retired if you haven't bought your Mega Millions ticket.

Before Tuesday's nighttime drafting astatine 8 pm, the jackpot is sitting astatine $1.13 billion.

Ticket income halt astatine 7:45 p.m.

But the likelihood of getting each 5 winning numbers is 1 successful 302-million, which means you person a higher accidental of getting struck by lightning.

The proprietor of Moroa Street Deli and Liquor successful Northwest Fresno said they're beauteous fashionable erstwhile it comes to radical buying their lotto tickets.

The proprietor told Action News it's usually aft 4 p.m. due to the fact that that's erstwhile a batch of radical commencement showing up to bargain their tickets.

People were trying retired their luck astatine the Morao Deli and Liquor Store. They were determination buying their tickets looking to triumph it big.

"I play it doubly a week," said Ted Vasquez of Fresno. "I've been playing it for 40 thing years but I'm hoping that this 1 maybe."

Vasquez bought 3 tickets precocious Tuesday morning.

Outside of the deli, signs are posted calling it a fortunate retailer.

Copies of winning tickets and scratchers bent wrong the store.

The proprietor said they've sold a cardinal dollar winning scratcher arsenic good arsenic a scratcher that was worthy $10,000.

Bob Morrow calls the deli his fortunate spot.

"This is supposedly 1 of the champion ones successful Fresno for lottery tickets," said Morrow. "So, we'll see."

People who privation to find a luck retailer tin cheque the California Lottery website. All they request to bash is spell to menu, click 'Where to Play', benignant successful either their city, address, oregon zip code. Once that's successful a database of participating stores that merchantability lotto tickets volition appear. People would request to prime the container that says 'Show lone fortunate retailer' to find a fortunate selling store.

According to the California Lottery, a store qualifies arsenic a fortunate retailer if they sold astatine slightest 1 $100,000 oregon higher winning ticket, paid retired an mean of 400 winning tickets per week, oregon paid retired an mean of $4,000 successful winning tickets per week.

Stores request to conscionable 1 oregon much of the pursuing criteria during the 2023 calendar year.

"I privation idiosyncratic signifier present oregon from Fresno oregon determination astir adjacent would triumph alternatively of backmost east," said Vasquez.

"Not that I'm saying they shouldn't triumph either. But it's usually idiosyncratic eastbound that idiosyncratic hits it. It would beryllium large if idiosyncratic present would deed it."

On apical of the mega millions jackpot, $865 is up for grabs successful Powerball. If you harvester the 2 together, it's conscionable shy of $2 billion.

The adjacent Powerball drafting is Wednesday.

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