Statistically, March is a good month for winning Mega Millions jackpots, and 2019 is no exception. A lucky Garden State Mega Millions player who bought a ticket for last Friday’s drawing is walking around with a ticket worth $273 million dollars.
In addition, according to Mega Millions archives, this is the 11th straight year, Mega Millions has had a March jackpot winner. And for the second year in a row, the March Mega Millions jackpot winner is from New Jersey.
The ticket correctly predicted all six winning numbers drawn on Friday night 29, 33, 39, 60 and 66, plus the gold Mega Ball 21. Based on actual sales, the jackpot for the drawing came to $273 million. The cash option value totaled $162,596,784.
This jackpot had been rolling since the first of January when a group of 23 New York co-workers won the then $437 million jackpot prize.
In this jackpot run, there were over 9.2 million winning tickets sold at all prize levels. This includes the jackpot winner and 21 matches 5 winners of $1 million or more.
Thus, the Mega Millions jackpot resets to its starting jackpot prize of $40 million for tomorrow’s drawing.
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