The Mega Millions jackpot for Friday night’s lottery drawing has jumped to $212 million.
The cash option for the 10:59 p.m. drawing is worth $128.5 million.
The winning numbers were: 30, 46, 23, 9, 17. The Mega Ball drawn was 10. The Megaplier was 4x.
No one has hit the Mega Millions jackpot since March 12, when Hira Singh of Shawnee, Kansas won the $50 million top prize with a ticket he bought at QuikTrip in Kansas City, Missouri. Since then, 12 twice-weekly drawings have been held without a jackpot winner.
Cash4Life lottery ticket worth $1K a week for life sold at N.J. ShopRite
The lucky Cash4Life ticket could also be cashed in for a $1 million lump sum prize.
No one hit Tuesday’s $192 million jackpot. There were also no second-prize, $1 million tickets sold nationally.
In New Jersey, a ticket sold at ShopRite on Route 9 in the Bayville section of Berkeley matched four numbers and the Mega Ball. The third-prize ticket is worth $10,000. The winning numbers in Tuesday’s drawing were: 7, 24, 30, 48, 67. The Mega Ball drawn was 9. The Megaplier was 4x.
Last month, a 54-year-old man who lives in Alpha, Warren County hit the $273 million Mega Millions drawing.
A Mega Millions ticket costs $2. The odds of a ticket matching five numbers and the Mega Ball are 302,575,350 to 1. It’s a 1 in 12,607,306 shot to win the second prize of at least $1 million by matching five numbers.
Mega Millions is played in 44 states, Washington D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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