She hopes that luck continues with the Mega Millions drawing Friday night. She can’t say if her store is lucky or not but tells CNN that one of her customers won $50,000 a few weeks ago and another won $1,000 last week. The lucky ticket sale came less than a month after the area was hard hit by Hurricane Ian. Mona Rawal owns the 7-Eleven in Fort Myers, Florida, where in October 2022 one of the two winning Mega Millions tickets was sold with a jackpot of nearly half a billion dollars. Prizes have also been won on Friday the 13th in New York, Ohio and Rhode Island. There have been six previous jackpots won on Friday the 13th – and four of them were in Michigan, the release said. Since then, more than 33 million winning tickets have been sold, including 68 players who took home $1 million or more, the lottery added. The last jackpot was won at $502 million on October 14, when there were two winning tickets from California and Florida, the Mega Millions said. The Mega Millions’ massive jackpot topped the billion-dollar mark after nearly three months without a winning ticket drawn. “Our member lotteries raise funds for many good causes, ranging from education to conservation programs. “Now at $1.35 billion, the Mega Millions jackpot is moving up and making history as the second highest Mega Millions jackpot ever,” the lottery said.

The estimated jackpot is surpassed only by the lottery’s record of $1.537 billion won in South Carolina in 2018, the lottery said. The jackpot soared from $1.1 billion after Tuesday night’s drawing when no winner snagged the big prize, the lottery said in a news release Wednesday. It likely will take hours before lottery officials announce whether there is a winner of the top prize.

Officials said the estimated annuitized jackpot could be worth $1.35 billion – the second-largest in the lottery’s history – while the potential lump sum cash payout is $724.6 million. The winning numbers for the Mega Millions lottery drawing on Friday were 30-43-45-46-61 with a Mega Ball of 14. 27, 2018 Iowa, New York.īryce Houston is a content specialist at the Courier-Journal.Friday the 13th might have ended up being someone’s lucky day. $1.337 billion, Mega Millions - JIllinois. Here are the nation's all-time top 10 Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots, according to : When is the next Mega Millions drawing?ĭrawings are held two times per week at approximately 11 p.m. A ticket matching one of the five numbers and the Mega Ball is worth $4. Matching two numbers won't win anything in Mega Millions unless one of the numbers is the Mega Ball. What do I win if I get 2 numbers on Mega Millions? However, that number must be the Mega Ball, worth $2.

You only need to match one number in Mega Millions to win a prize. How many numbers in Mega Millions do you need to win a prize? The winning ticket sold in Louisville was one of 14 across the country to match five of the six numbers. One ticket sold in Maine matched all six numbers to win the Mega Millions jackpot, on Jan 13., worth an estimated $1.35 billion with a cash option of $724.6 million.Ī Mega Millions ticket sold in Louisville ahead of last Friday's drawing matched five of the six winning numbers, according to a release Saturday from the Kentucky Lottery. Who won the latest Mega Millions drawing? One ticket bought in New York matched all six numbers to win the Mega Millions jackpot. The winning numbers for Tuesday night's drawing were 2, 12, 18, 24, 39, and the Mega Ball was 18. Is today your lucky day? Mega Millions winning numbers 17, lottery jackpot, worth an estimated $20 million with a cash option of $10.7 million.

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