Winning Mega Millions Number Results for Friday January 17, Check to See If You Won $41 Million

The winning numbers for tonight's Friday, Janurary 17, Mega Million lottery drawing have been picked. Check the results below to see if you won $41 million.

The winning numbers are: 1 10 26 31 51 MB 11

The official Mega Millions website goes on to add some bullet point facts list about the most recent big MM 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.”