Mega Millions Drawing For 01/01/21 The Friday Jackpot is $ 401 Million

Mega Millions Drawing For 01/01/21 The Friday 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 11pm ET.

Keep this page bookmarked and refreshed to see if you keep the winning numbers of the Friday night drawing.

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

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

There was no big prize winner from Tuesday’s draw, nor were tickets sold matching the first five white balls, minus the gold Mega Ball, for the second prize of $ 1 million.

On Tuesday, 20 tickets were sold nationwide, matching four of the five white balls and the Mega Ball for the third prize of $ 10,000. Three of those bought the Megaplier for an extra $ 1, earning their third prize prize worth $ 30,000.

Powerball and Mega Millions Tickets
Mega Millions and Powerball tickets went on sale in January 2020 in Texas. None of the tickets were winners, and the jackpot skyrocketed for each game in the new year.
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The last big prize winner of the jackpot was from a ticket sold in Wisconsin on 15/09/20 for a jackpot worth $ 119 million. It was only the fifth and final Mega Millions jackpot won in the 2020 calendar year.

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 – dating from 2019 – were a $ 372 million ticket sold in Ohio and a $ 227 million ticket sold on 09/24/19 in the city of Cedar Park, Texas, a suburb north of Austin , has been sold.

Mega Millions is a multi-state lottery every Tuesday and Friday night, and it’s one of America’s two biggest lottery jackpot games. Mega Millions jackpots start at $ 20 million, and other prizes pay from $ 1 million to $ 2 million or more with a Megaplier. Tickets are $ 2 per line, and the chance to win with a $ 2 Mega Millions ticket is one in 303 million. Visit the website for more information on Mega Millions or to check your previous numbers.

Powerball is the other multi-state lottery, starting at $ 20 million. Its drawings will take place shortly after 23:00 ET on Wednesday and Saturday evenings. Here is the Powerball website for more information, or to check out previous winning numbers.

Friday night we post the Mega Millions 01/01/21 payouts and tell if there was a winner and where the winner came from, if so.

Here are the ten best Mega Millions jackpots so far:

Amount / date / winning tickets

  1. $ 1,537 billion $ 23/10/2018 1-SC
  2. $ 656 million 30/03/2012 3-IL, 1-KS, 1-MD
  3. $ 648 million 2013/17/17 2-CA, 1-GA
  4. $ 543 million 24/7/2018 1-CA
  5. $ 536 million 2016/08/08 1-IN
  6. $ 533 million 2018-03-30 1-NJ
  7. $ 522 million 6/07/2019 1-CA
  8. $ 451 million 1/5/2018 1-FL
  9. $ 414 million 18/03/2014 2-FL, 1-MD
  10. $ 410 million 4/09/2020 1-AZ

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