2 $1 Million Winners In NJ As Mega Millions Jackpot Hits $850M

NEW JERSEY – Two $1 million tickets were sold in New Jersey this weekend now that the Mega Millions jackpot has hit an estimated $850 million, or $628.2 million in cash.

The jackpot will be offered on Tuesday – the second-largest prize in the game’s history. No ticket matched all six numbers drawn Friday night – the white balls 3, 11, 12, 38 and 43, plus the gold Mega Ball 15.

Tickets that matched five of the five white balls drawn winning the $1 million prize were purchased at the following locations:

• Bergen County: Food Mart 4 U, 235 Patterson Ave., Wallington; and,
• Sussex County: 7-Eleven #36051, 85 Sparta Ave., Sparta.

There were nine third-tier prizewinning tickets sold that matched four of the five white balls and the gold ball, winning $10,000. Those tickets were purchased at the following locations:

• Cumberland County: Cumberland Liquors, 803 Landis Ave., Bridgeton;
• Gloucester County: Xpress Mart, 107 Egg Harbor Rd., Sewell;
• Gloucester County: Wawa #775, 1445 S. Black Horse Pike, Williamstown;
• Hudson County: Roniraj Inc., 3563 Kennedy Blvd., Jersey City;
• Middlesex County: Stop & Shop #810, 1600 Perrineville Rd., Monroe Township;
• Morris County: Weis Markets #126, 146 Center Grove Rd., Randolph;
• Ocean County: Mystic Island Casino, 110 Mathistown Rd., Little Egg Harbor Township;
• Passaic County: Jackpocket/Utopia Deli, 355 Warwick Turnpike, Hewitt; and,
• Somerset County: Krauszer’s, 435 Amwell Rd., Hillsborough.

In addition to the second and third-tier prizes won, 173 players matched four of the five white balls drawn making each ticket worth $500.

Twenty-one of those tickets were purchased with the Megaplier option, multiplying the prizes to $2,000.

Moreover, 256,805 other New Jersey players took home $1,153,708 in prizes ranging from $2 to $800.

The estimated $850 million jackpot would be the third-largest prize in American lottery history, below only two billion-dollar-plus jackpots: the world-record Powerball jackpot of $1.586 billion on Jan. 13, 2016 and the current Mega Millions record of $1.537 billion on Oct. 23, 2018.

The latter is the world’s largest prize won on a single ticket, as the Powerball record was shared by three winning tickets, lottery officials said.

While the jackpot keeps growing, prizes at all other levels continue to add up during this roll, which began after the jackpot was last won in Wisconsin on Sept. 15.

There were a total of 4,682,795 winning tickets at all prize levels in the Friday drawing, including eight that matched the five white balls to win the game’s $1 million second prize.

For matching the four white balls plus the Mega Ball, 142 tickets won $10,000 each; 22 of those are actually worth $40,000 each because they included the optional Megaplier, an extra $1 purchase available in most states; Friday’s Megaplier was 4X.

View all New Jersey Lottery game winning numbers and drawings for the Pick-3, Pick-4, Jersey Cash 5, Pick-6, CASH4LIFE and 5 Card Cash games on the Lottery website (www.NJLottery.com) or on the official Lottery Facebook Page.

Evening draws, with the exception of CASH4LIFE and 5 Card Cash, can be seen on WPIX-TV (PIX11) in New York and WPHL-TV (PHL17) in Philadelphia. Powerball and Mega Millions drawings can be seen on WABC-TV or WTXF stations.