Well, that didn’t take long. After someone in New Jersey bought a winning ticket worth $267 million on March 1, there’s already a new jackpot winner in town. (Or, at least in Missouri somewhere according to the official Mega Millions website).
Here are the winning numbers in Tuesday’s drawing:
10-12-16-49-57; Mega Ball: 18; Megaplier: 4X
The estimated jackpot for the drawing is $50 million. The cash option is about $30.1 million. If no one wins, the Mega Millions jackpot will get bigger for the next drawing.
According to the game's official website, the odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350.
Players pick six numbers from two separate pools of numbers -- five different numbers from 1 to 70 and one number from 1 to 25 -- or select Easy Pick. A player wins the jackpot by matching all six winning numbers in a drawing.
Jackpot winners choose whether to receive 30 annual payments, each five percent higher than the last, or a lump-sum payment.
Mega Millions drawings are Tuesdays and Fridays and are offered in 44 states, Washington D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tickets cost $2 each.