Did you buy a Mega Millions lottery ticket for the Dec. 2 drawing? If so, check those tickets.
A winning ticket was sold in New Jersey, according to USAMega.com, a website that covers the lottery. The $90 million jackpot carries a cash option of $41.9 million.
While the Mega Millions jackpot was a nice windfall, tonight provides New Jersey residents with another chance to hit big.
The Powerball jackpot tonight is worth $775 million with a cash option of $362.5 million.
The winning numbers for Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawing are 17, 25, 26, 53, and 60, with Mega Ball number 16.
Yes. There was one winning ticket sold.
The next Mega Millions drawing is Friday. Drawings are held at 11 p.m. every Tuesday and Friday.
In New Jersey, in-store and online ticket sales are available until 10:45 p.m. on the night of the draw.
Mega Millions costs $5 to play.
Mega Millions retired its Megaplier feature and now has a built-in multiplier that increases non-jackpot prizes by two, three, four, five or 10 times. The multiplier is automatically included in every play.
The odds of matching the five white balls and Mega Ball to win the Mega Millions jackpot are 1 in 290,472,336.
You can watch Mega Millions drawing on YouTube. The winning numbers are also posted to the Mega Millions website and on the New Jersey Lottery website.
A jackpot winner has the option of taking an annuity or cash payment.
The annuity is paid out as one immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments, according to the Mega Millions website. Each payment is 5% bigger than the previous one.
“This helps protect winners’ lifestyle and purchasing power in periods of inflation,” according to the Mega Millions website.
The cash option is a one-time, lump-sum payment that is equal to all the cash in the Mega Millions jackpot prize pool.
If two or more people win the jackpot in the same drawing, the money is shared equally among all winning tickets.