Largest Mega Millions jackpot in two years will be drawn Friday
There has been another rollover in the top prize for the multi-state Mega Millions lottery — expanding the jackpot to a staggering $325 million for the Friday drawing.
The lump-sum cash value is estimated to be $205 million.
It is the largest Mega Millions jackpot in two years, and if sales are brisker than expected, it may get even bigger. On August 31, 2007, four ticket-holders from Maryland, New Jersey, Texas, and Virginia shared a $330 million Mega Millions jackpot.
The rollover occurred because no player matched all the winning numbers from Tuesday night's $252 million drawing.
The next Mega Millions drawing will be Friday, Aug. 28, at 11:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The winning numbers will be published within minutes of the draw time at USA Mega (www.usamega.com).
Although there was no grand prize winner Tuesday night, 24 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $250,000 prize: 4 from California, 2 from Georgia, 1 from Massachusetts, 4 from Michigan, 3 from New Jersey, 3 from New York, 2 from Ohio, 3 from Texas, and 2 from Virginia.
The California second-prize winners will take home prizes of $214,190 each, because California pays out with a pari-mutuel payment structure that divides the available prize money at each level by the number of winners, unlike the other Mega Millions states that pay out fixed prize amounts.
Another 202 players won third prizes of $10,000 apiece by matching four of the first five numbers plus the Mega Ball. 44 of those winners are from California, and will collect $5,310 each.
The winning numbers from Friday night's drawing were: 3, 12, 19, 22, and 40, with a Mega Ball number of 2.
The Texas Megaplier was 4.
How do we know that the Jackpot value actually reflects ticket sales here?
It's an estimate. The actual amount will almost certainly be larger.
I can't believe no one won, I thought for sure after I saw those numbers someone would.
Is the world ready for another Jack Whittaker?
Same here. I thought for sure it would be won tonight.
I will be making a trip to VA on friday since it is 45minutes away from my house.
its official heck has officially frozen over
It is staggering, however if there is a rollover what will the jackpot be???
The people will go crazy to buy MM Lotto tickets, please expand now!!!
what would it have to be to be a record breaking jackpot?
KidzMom: You might want to go earlier than Friday. I'm sure there will be a loooong line at Bracey, which is where I assume you'll be going. ;-) Speaking of that, where in Bracey do you get your tix? I go to the truck stop (Simmons) but I don't know if they've ever had any winners. Coincidently, I'll be in Bracey on Friday as I drive through to another destination, so if you still go then, maybe I'll see ya in line!
I know in the last story, people talked about spending $40 so they could at least make a few bucks back. Can someone post where that was last discussed in depth? The math and so on is what I mean. I'm a lousy searcher.
Good luck to all!
Im seeing muliple winners, and i being one of them!!!!!!! now this is going to get interesting
SSSSSSSSSsssshhhhhhhh! You just shut your dirty little mouth!
I am glad that I purchased a ticket good for 4 draws !
At least I have a chance !
This poor sick guy needs some good luck !
I am seeing one winner !
I would have fun helping some people that I choose to help and funding some instrumental music programs !
Looks like I'll be driving to Jersey again for tickets
Good luck all.
Im going to put down $20-$25 for this Friday's drawing. Hopefully luck will be on my side this Friday evening.
I think it is $410 million, so it would have to be just over that.
i think over 390 million that is the record it happend in 2007 and 2 people won it 1 in NJ and one in GA
i hope i can win... like everyone else of course. and at least i hit some money last night. so things are looking up!!!
Wow...I thought for sure someone would have won last night. Well...I'll be getting my tickets tomorrow cos I don't want to be in a long line on Friday. I already belong to 3 lottery pools at work ($2 each week, so $6 for all 3 pools...not too bad), but I'll also pick up a few tickets myself.
Good luck guys and gals! I know I'l have fun daydreaming about winning....
It took 73million from Sat. to Tues to reach 325million............you think we can do 75million in three days?
The $400 million jackpot is finally here...............and Friday is going to be nuts!!!!!..........I truly hope that people play responsibly, and adamc224 you are right....the record is held by Mega Millions at $390 million back in 2007........its time to break it....and that'll be one heck of a stimulus check!
Yes, $390 million in March of 2007, won by two tickets from GA and NJ. The drawing was in Times Square.
It can be fun to look back on the sequence of events that week. It can be found in the USA Mega news archive for March 2007: http://www.usamega.com/archive-032007.htm
By the way, the estimate for that drawing calculated after the previous draw was $370 million, and the frantic rush for tickets pushed the jackpot up to the final $390 million by draw time.
That's very interesting Todd. Have I said "Thank you" lately?
@perfecttiming2:
Sat to tues was just three days., so why not?
Hi Spy..........
That question in my post was more like a statement ......with an attitude (LOL...wink, wink)
oh, my bad.
Nice to meet btw.
i think it will be a record breaker also! i am going to buy 20-40 dollars. if only one person wins this money it will be unreal for them. i hope they take this advice and get a blind trust! everyone would be their new best friends... lol what would i do for this money or at least a chunk of about 50 million : ) way more exciting than powerball!! way more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
man i can't even begin to think what im going to do with all that money
Im going to be dropping 5 bucks in a few counties in NJ and in brooklyn and manhattan . I'll be happy with $150 !
Unless sales fall well short of their estimates, another roll will absolutely shatter the previous record. The cash value of the previous record was a bit over $233 million. Based on the cash to annuity ratio for this jackpot it would take an advertised annuity value of just under $371 million to have a bigger cash value. If sales aren't any better than their first estimate, another roll can't possibly miss the 400 mark, and would almost certainly be 425. That would be a hair over $267.5 million in pre-tax cash.
Of course for the previous record the initial estimate was for a jump from 275 to 340, and later announcements increased it to 355 and then 370, before the final accounting pushed it to 390. Similar sales for this drawing would have it finishing at about 355 to 360. If that happens and it does roll it would have to go past 460. If that wasn't enough to push it past 500 I'd be very surprised. If this one does finish in the 350 range it will mean there were sales of almost 200 million tickets. In theory that would cover a bit more than 70% of possible combinations. In reality it would be a lot less, so there's roughly a 1 in 3 chance it will roll again.
Where can I go to play from Tennessee,,,I guess the closest route??????? Anyone know,I will play for sure ,,,,Good Luck to all!
I think Ga. would be the closest
Let me know if you'r going.