News reaches Lotto Central HQ this morning from our blog readers across the pond that the Megamillions Lottery Jackpot was finally won last night after numerous rollovers with one lucky ticket holder from Illinois scooping the $260 million ( $158.5 million in cash ) Megamillions Jackpot .
The Megamillions numbers drawn on Tuesday 2nd June were 02-09-11-22-23 with the number of the Megaball being 12. In Tuesday night’s draw one ticket holder matched the five main numbers and Megaball thus the $260 million jackpot was finally won !
In Tuesday night’s draw there was one first prize winner matching the five main balls and the Megaball and also fourteen lucky ticket holders won the second prize by matching the five main balls.
The lucky winning second prize ticket holders came from California, Georgia , Kentucky ,Minnesota , New Jersey , New York (x2), North Carolina , Pennsylvania , Texas , Virginia ( x 3) and Washington with the Californian winner scooping $697,111 and the winners from the other states all scooping a prize of $1 million each for matching the five main balls.
Now that the Megamillions jackpot has been won it will revert to a relatively small estimated $15 million jackpot in the next Megamillions draw which is scheduled for Friday 5th June 2015.
The Megamillions Jackpot will soon gain momentum so let’s keep an eye on what soon becomes a rapidly growing jackpot , meanwhile we are off to the Lotter to get on for Friday night’s draw !
We wish all our fellow Lottery enthusiasts good luck in this week’s Lottery activities !
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