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$3 million Mega Millions ticket sold in New York, Connecticut
$3 million Mega Hundreds of thousands ticket offered in New York, Connecticut
The Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpot climbed to $1.35 billion after no ticket matched all six numbers drawn on Tuesday night time, however there was a $3 million winner in New York and Connecticut.
NEW YORK – The Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpot climbed to $1.35 billion, the second-largest prize within the recreation’s historical past, after no ticket matched all six numbers drawn on Tuesday night time – however there was a $3 million winner in New York and Connecticut.
Successful numbers
The profitable numbers drawn on Tuesday night time had been white balls 7, 13, 14, 15, and 18, plus the gold Mega Ball 9.
Three profitable tickets, one every in Connecticut, Florida and New York, are value $3 million.
There have been 16 tickets from throughout the nation that matched the 5 white balls to win the sport’s second-tier prize of $1 million. Three of them, one every in Connecticut, Florida and New York, included the optionally available Megaplier 3X, bumping up the profitable ticket’s value to $3 million every.
The opposite 13 profitable tickets value $1 million had been offered in California, Florida, Kansas, Massachusetts (two), Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio (two), Oregon, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.
The following drawing is Friday, Jan. 13 at 11 p.m. ET. In accordance with lottery officers, the grand prize additionally comes with a $707.9 million money choice.
The one Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpot bigger than Friday’s estimated prize is the sport document of $1.537 billion, which was received in South Carolina in October 2018.
The best way to play Mega Hundreds of thousands
Mega Hundreds of thousands drawings are held Tuesday and Friday at 11 p.m. ET. 5 white balls are drawn from a set of balls numbered 1 via 70, and one gold Mega Ball is drawn from a set of balls numbered 1 via 25. Gamers win if the numbers on one row of a ticket match the numbers of the balls drawn on that date.
Mega Hundreds of thousands tickets value $2 per play. Gamers win the jackpot by matching all six numbers in a drawing. If nobody wins the jackpot, the cash is added to the jackpot for the subsequent drawing.
Odds of profitable the jackpot
These fortunate sufficient to turn out to be a Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpot winner get the selection of a money choice or an annual payout. The annuity choice means getting an preliminary cost adopted by 29 annual funds, and every cost is 5% bigger than the earlier one.
Those that choose the money choice obtain a one-time, lump-sum cost that is the same as all of the money within the Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpot prize pool after taxes.
The chances of profitable the Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpot prize is roughly 1 in 302,575,350, lottery officers mentioned. However a participant’s general likelihood of profitable any prize is 1 in 24.