Mega Millions tickets sold out for $1 million in New Jersey with the jackpot rising to $820 million

While no one won the Mega Millions jackpot on Friday, two tickets sold in New Jersey were worth $1 million each.

The winning tickets sold at Garden State each matched five white balls for a $1 million prize, according to lottery officials.

As of early Saturday, the locations where Million Dollar tickets were sold had not been announced.

The lack of a jackpot winner in the final Friday night lottery drawing caused the jackpot to rise to an estimated $820 million, Lottery officials said.

The numbers drawn late Friday were: 29, 40, 47, 50, 57 and Mega Ball 25 Gold. No tickets were sold reaching all of these numbers for the $720 million grand prize.

Friday’s drawing resulted in eight tickets matching five white balls for the $1 million prize. Mega Millions said that in addition to the two cars sold in the Garden State, two each were sold in Florida and North Carolina, one in California and one in Michigan.

The estimated $820 million in the next drawing on Tuesday night will only be distributed to the winner who chooses an annual stipend to be paid out over 29 years. Almost all of the major prize winners choose to take cash payouts, which were estimated at $422 million on Tuesday.

Mega Millions said in a statement early Saturday that the potential jackpot is the fifth largest in the game’s history.

Despite the game’s long odds of 1 in 302.6 million, players keep buying tickets as the jackpot size increases.

The last time a Mega Millions player won the first prize was on April 18th.

Material from the Associated Press supplements this report.

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