Tickets are $2 per line, and odds of winning with a $2 Mega Millions ticket are one in 303 million. Mega Millions jackpots start at $20 million, and other prizes pay from $1 million to $2 million or more with a Megaplier. Mega Millions is a multi-state lottery every Tuesday and Friday night, and it is one of America's two biggest lottery jackpot games. Other winners-dating back to 2019-were a $372 million ticket sold in Ohio and a $227 million ticket that was sold on 09/24/19 in the city of Cedar Park, Texas-a suburb north of Austin. Here are the five Mega Millions jackpots won in 2020: It was only the fifth, and final, Mega Millions jackpot won in the 2020 calendar year. Scott McDonald/Newsweekīefore last Friday, the last grand prize jackpot winner was from a ticket sold in Wisconsin on 09/15/20 for a jackpot worth $119 million. The other multi-state lottery game is Powerball, which is played on Wednesdays and Saturdays. ![]() Mega Millions is played on Tuesdays and Fridays. Here are tickets from multiple states-Louisiana, Florida and Mississippi-bought in February and March. Mega Millions is one of two multi-state lottery games. Thirty-one of those purchased the Megaplier for an extra $1, which made their third-prize winnings worth $20,000. There were 187 tickets sold nationwide on Friday that matched four of the five white balls and the Mega Ball for the $10,000 third prize. There were two tickets sold-one each in North Carolina and Virginia-that bought the Megaplier, making their tickets worth $2 million apiece. Those tickets were sold in Florida (2), Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New York (2) and Pennsylvania. Eight of those players didn't purchase the Megaplier for an extra $1, which make their second-prize worth $1 million. There were 10 people who hit the first five numbers on Friday night, just missing out on the gold Mega Ball for the game's second prize. Friday night's jackpot wasn't just the second-largest in Mega Millions history, but the third-largest jackpot in American lottery history.įriday night's win also ended a 37-game streak, the longest in Mega Millions history without a winner. The other was also from a Mega Millions prize. ![]() It's the second-largest prize in lotto history from one ticket. The Megaplier was 2x.Ī single ticket sold in Michigan hit the $1.05 billion Mega Millions jackpot Friday night. The winning numbers last Friday (01/22/21) for the $1.05 billion jackpot were: 04-26-42-50-60 with a Mega Ball of 24. The total jackpot could increase depending on the number of tickets sold around the country prior to the drawing. Tuesday night's 01/26/21 jackpot was worth $20 million, with a cash-value option of $14.7 million. The Mega Millions jackpot for 01/26/21 was $20 million, and here are the winning numbers from Tuesday night's drawing.
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