For the 494 million USD Mega Millions jackpot draw on Friday, 14th of October, two jackpot lucky tickets were purchased. It was the 1st time in 5 years that there were multiple jackpot winners in a single draw thanks to the lottery tickets for the 2nd-largest prize of the year, which were sold in Florida and California.
This means that the draw on 18th of October, Tuesday, was worth $20 million, with a 10,000,000 USD cash option,
The 14th of October’s digits of Mega Millions draw were: 9, 22, 26, 41, 44.
The Mega Ball: nineteen
The multiplier: two
Mega Millions grand-prize victors haven’t claimed their prize yet
3 players also claimed 1,000,000 USD in the drawing when they got all 5 white balls, in addition to the top prize victors. These lucky tickets were bought in Texas, New Jersey, and North Carolina.
The Texas player also used the Megaplier feature, bringing their earnings to 2 million USD.
One purchased ticket in Michigan had the Mega Ball, 4 white balls, as well as the Mega Ball, and it claimed 10,000 USD in the drawing. The state’s largest prize was won thanks to that one.
503,669 tickets were purchased for the draw which claimed 4 USD more. 21,528 of the tickets sold in Michigan received 4 USD or more from the draw.
The dates on which the Mega Millions draw takes place are Friday and Tuesday at midnight. The Mega Ball is picked at random from a group of balls having a digit between 1 and 25. A set of balls with digits between one and seventy are used to select five balls. The odds of winning the prize are one in 302 million.
Mega Millions is fought in forty-four states, the Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia. The cost of only one ticket is $2.
Michigan Lottery: Other winnings
On Saturday, October 15, there will be a Powerball draw with a projected 454,000,000 USD million jackpot and a 232,600,000 USD cash option.
On Saturday, 15th of October at 19:29 (7:29pm), Lotto 47 will hold its next draw with a 1,200,000 USD jackpot. That day’s deadline seems to be at 19:08 (7:08pm).