The Mega Millions lottery numbers are on the rise once again. Check the preview below to see the new totals for Friday, January 17.
The new Mega Millions totals for this weekend’s drawing are a whopping $41 million.
The Mega Millions website is now reporting on the first big winner of the year:
“Amid a festive setting of balloons and cheering onlookers, the Tennessee Lottery today welcomed the winners of its largest prize ever, who arrived to claim the $61 million Mega Millions jackpot won from the drawing held Friday, Jan. 3.
“The winners of the hefty prize, Bettina “Tina” Still and her son Jonathan, both of Nashville, preferred not to speak publicly but did allow photographs to be taken at the Lottery’s Nashville headquarters with Tennessee Lottery President and CEO Rebecca Hargrove. “
The site goes on to add some bullet point facts about the big win:
“$61 Million Tennessee Mega Millions Jackpot Quick Facts:
• Winning ticket matched all six Mega Millions numbers drawn on Friday, Jan. 3.
• Ticket sold at Bellevue Shell, 7395 Old Harding Pike, Nashville, TN 37221. Retailer received $25,000.
• This is the largest prize in Tennessee Lottery history and the first Mega Millions jackpot winner for Tennessee. The second-largest winner in Tennessee was a family from South Pittsburg who won a Powerball jackpot of $25.5 million in March 2005. This marks the 131st winning Lottery ticket sold in Tennessee worth a million dollars or more.
• Tennessee launched Mega Millions on Jan. 31, 2010, after an agreement between Powerball and Mega Millions groups to allow states the option of offering both large jackpot, multi-jurisdictional, drawing-style games.
• The game was recently modified to create larger starting jackpots, a million-dollar second prize, better overall odds of winning a prize, and a new matrix of 1-75 for the first five numbers and 1-15 for the Mega Ball number.
• Ticket price is $1.
• 45 lottery jurisdictions sell Mega Millions tickets (43 states plus Washington DC and US Virgin Islands).
• The Tennessee Education Lottery has raised over $2.8 BILLION for education since it began selling tickets on January 20, 2004 and funded more than 800,000 scholarships and grants.
• The Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation operates entirely from the revenue it generates through the sale of its products. Net proceeds from sales of Lottery tickets, currently averaging over $6.3 million per week, fund specific education programs, including college scholarships and after-school programs. In addition to the educational beneficiaries, players have won over $6.5 billion in prizes and Lottery retailer partners have earned over $706 million in retailer commissions.”
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