Mega Millions Winner: Here's Who Won The $20 Million Jackpot
By Jason Hall
January 18, 2023
A single ticket sold in New York won the $20 million Mega Millions drawing on Tuesday (January 17), according to MegaMillions.com.
Results from Tuesday's Mega Millions game are listed below:
NUMBERS: 2-12-18-24-39
GOLD BALL: 18
MEGAPLIER: 3x
The Mega Millions jackpot had already reset ahead of Tuesday's drawing after one player in Maine won the estimated $1.35 billion drawing last Friday (January 14).
The Mega Millions jackpot will once reset to $20 million for Friday's (January 20) drawing after having risen for several consecutive months.
Friday's jackpot was the second-highest in the game's history and offered the fourth-largest jackpot in the U.S. lottery history.
The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are reported to be 1 in 302.5 million, according to MegaMillions.com.
The Mega Millions jackpot has exceeded the billion mark four times in its existence. In October 2018, a ticket was sold in South Carolina winning $1.537 billion ($878 million cash value), which is the world's largest jackpot for a single ticket and the largest cash value for a single ticket.
The Mega Millions and Powerball games offered a combined jackpot of more than $1.7 billion in 2021.
Mega Millions' jackpot reached $1.05 billion, with a cash option of $776.6 million on Friday, January 22, 2021, before a player in Michigan matched all six numbers. The jackpot was the second largest cash value ticket in lottery history.
Powerball's jackpot reached $731.1 million, with a cash option worth $546.8 million on Wednesday, January 20 2021, before a player in Maryland matched all six numbers. The jackpot was the third largest cash value for a single ticket in lottery history and the fourth largest in Powerball history.
Both jackpots increase during each following game until there's a winning ticket matching all six numbers drawn, which includes the additional Mega Millions "gold ball" or Powerball in each respective game.