NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- There's a big lottery winner in Orange County. That's because a Mega Millions ticket worth $5.1 million was sold in Corona del Mar.

The ticket, which matched five numbers but missed the Mega number from Friday's draw, was sold at a CVS Pharmacy store on East Coast Highway, California lottery officials said.

Tickets with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, sold outside California are worth a multiple of $1 million. However, California law requires major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis, meaning they are determined by sales and the number of winners.

The ticket's base prize amount was $2,552,480, then doubled to $5,104,960 because the ticket's multiplier was 2, according to the California Lottery. It would have been worth $

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