For the fifth time this year, we have seen a Mega Millions jackpot-win. Last night’s drawing produced a single jackpot-winning ticket, sold in New Hampshire. The ticket correctly played all six winning numbers drawn to win the estimated $168 million jackpot. The cash alternative is worth $108.5 million.
The winning numbers for July 23 drawing were the white balls 01, 4, 23, 40 and 45. The golden Mega Ball was 11.
It’s a New Hampshire first Mega Millions jackpot-win. However, there have been several match-5 winning tickets sold in the state, including one worth $5 million in 2014.
The jackpot had been rolling since a whopping $522 million jackpot was won in California on June 7. Other jackpots awarded this year include the $437 million Mega Millions jackpot-win in New York on January 1, $273 million in New Jersey on March 1, and $50 million in Missouri on March 12.
In addition to the jackpot-winning ticket, there were 612,456 other winning tickets Tuesday night at all prize levels. One ticket, sold in California, matched the five white balls to win the game’s second prize. For matching four white balls plus the Mega Ball, 22 tickets won $10,000 each in Tuesday’s drawing; three are worth $20,000 each because they included the optional Megaplier, which was 2X for the July 23 drawing.
During this jackpot run, there were over 6.1 million winning tickets sold. This figure includes the jackpot winner and eight other tickets with prize values of $1 million or more.
The next drawing on Friday, July 26, resets to its starting value of $40 million ($25.8 million cash).
About Mega Millions
Mega Millions play cost $2 per playline. In Michigan, tickets must be bought by 10:45 p.m. on the evening of the drawing.
The odds of hitting a Mega Millions jackpot-win by matching five numbers including the Mega Ball are 302,575,350 to 1. Yet, you have one in 12,607,306 chances to win the second level prize worth $1 million for correctly predicting all but the Mega Ball number.
