Mega Millions draw for 1/1/21, Friday’s jackpot is $ 401 million

Mega Millions draw for 1/1/21, Friday’s jackpot is $ 401 million

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The Mega Millions jackpot for 01/01/21 is $ 401 million, and the draw will be held tonight at 23:00 ET.

Keep this page checked and update it to see if you keep the winning numbers from Friday night’s draw.

The Friday night 01/01/21 jackpot is worth $ 401 million, with a cash value option of $ 305.4 million. The total jackpot may increase depending on the number of tickets sold across the country before the draw.

The winning numbers on Tuesday (12/29/20) for the $ 376 million jackpot were: 01-31-35-48-62 with a Mega Ball of 19. The Megaplier was 3x.

There was no grand prize winner in Tuesday’s draw, nor were tickets sold that corresponded to the first five white balls, without the golden Mega Ball, for the second prize of the $ 1 million game.

Twenty tickets were sold across the country on Tuesday, corresponding to four of the five white balls and the Mega Ball for the third prize of $ 10,000. Three of them bought the Megaplier for an extra $ 1, which made their third prize winnings worth $ 30,000.

Powerball and Mega Millions Tickets
Mega Millions and Powerball tickets were sold in Texas during January 2020. None of the tickets won, and the jackpot continued to rise for each game in the new year.
Scott McDonald / Newsweek

The last big winner of the grand prize was a ticket sold in Wisconsin on 9/15/20 for a $ 119 million prize. It was only the fifth and final Mega Millions jackpot won in the calendar year 2020.

Here are the five Mega Millions jackpots won in 2020:

$ 119 million – September 15 in Wisconsin
$ 22 million – July 31 in California
$ 124 million – July 24 in New Jersey
$ 410 million – June 9 in Arizona
$ 202 million – February 11 in New Jersey

Other winners – dated 2019 – were a $ 372 million ticket sold in Ohio and a $ 227 million ticket sold on 9/24/19 in the city of Cedar Park, Texas – a suburb north of Austin.

Mega Millions is a multi-state lottery every Tuesday and Friday night, and is one of America’s two biggest lottery games. Mega Millions jackpots start at $ 20 million and other prizes range from $ 1 million to $ 2 million or more with a Megaplier. Tickets cost $ 2 per line and the chances of winning with a $ 2 Mega Millions ticket are one in 303 million. For more information about Mega Millions or to check its previous numbers, visit its website.

Powerball is the other multi-state lottery and also starts at $ 20 million. Their draws take place shortly after 11:00 pm Eastern Time, on Wednesday and Saturday nights. Here is the Powerball website for more information or to check previous winning numbers.

Friday night we will post the Mega Millions draws 01/01/21 and say if there was a winner and where that winner came from, if any.

Here are the top 10 Mega Millions Jackpots to date:

Quantity / Date / Winning Tickets

  1. $ 1.537 billion 10/23/2018 1-SC
  2. $ 656 million 3/30/2012 3-IL, 1-KS, 1-MD
  3. $ 648 million 12/17/2013 2-CA, 1-GA
  4. $ 543 million 7/24/2018 1-CA
  5. $ 536 million 7/8/2016 1-IN
  6. $ 533 million 3/30/2018 1-NJ
  7. $ 522 million 6/7/2019 1-CA
  8. $ 451 million 1/5/2018 1-FL
  9. $ 414 million 3/18/2014 2-FL, 1-MD
  10. $ 410 million 4/09/2020 1-AZ

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