September 7
It seems that the US Mega Millions jackpot has been making headlines lately. With an estimated prize of $172 million bucks for this coming Friday's (the 9th) drawing, many of us may take a break from online gambling in order to spend some coin playing this humongous jackpot.
This week, the excitement in Mega Millions is getting almost feverish. For last night's (Tues. 6th) drawing, over 850,000 tickets were winners, including 8 tickets that each won $250,000. Once again, no one won the big prize, the $150 million jackpot. So the jackpot for the Friday, September 9 drawing grows to an estimated $172 million.
Tuesday's winning Mega Millions numbers were 01-08-27-31-50 and the Mega Ball number was 40. Here is a complete breakdown of the 851,196 winning tickets:
The 8 tickets that nearly won the jackpot did so by matching the first five numbers and only missing the Mega Ball number. Those tickets were purchased in Massachusetts (2), Michigan (2), New Jersey (1), Ohio (1) and Texas (2).
Mega Millions is played in 12 states: California, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Texas, Virginia and Washington.
Mega Millions lottery drawings take place Tuesdays and Fridays at 11 PM Eastern, 10 PM Central and 8 PM Pacific Time.
