Two winners from CA(2) split $395,000,000 Mega Millions jackpot

Two lucky tickets in CA(2) matched all six numbers in the Friday, December 8th, 2023 drawing and won the $395,000,000 jackpot. The numbers from Friday, December 8th, 2023 drawing were 21, 26, 53, 66, 70 and the Mega Ball was 13, Megaplier was 3. The winners have the options of 30 annuity payments, or the one-time cash option. The jackpot winners are encouraged to sign the ticket, place it in a safe place and contact lottery officials as soon as possible. Jackpot winners have the opportunity to choose the cash value of the jackpot while claiming the prize. If the winners do not make choice, the payment option will revert to annuity by default.

Besides the grand prize awarded on Friday, December 8th, 2023, Mega Millions produced a lot more pleased winners walked away with huge prizes. A total of 10 lucky players won the third prize. These included 10 tickets that matched 4 white numbers plus the Mega Ball and won $10,000.

Additional prizes won Friday night included 282 tickets that matched 4 lotto numbers and won $500. 750 tickets matched three of the five lotto numbers, plus the Mega Ball number. These tickets are also each worth $200.

There were 143,324 Mega Millions winning tickets sold in the state of New York. There were 71662 top prize winning tickets sold in the state of New York.

With 9 prize tiers, there were 1,431,908 winning tickets sold across U.S. in the Friday, December 8th, 2023 drawing.

The new Mega Millions lottery drawing, Tuesday night, will feature a jackpot of $20,000,000 with the cash option at $$9.5 million.

Mega Millions is an U.S. popular lottery game sold in 44 lottery jurisdictions as a pari-mutuel jackpot game. It holds the record biggest jackpot of $656 million in North American lottery history. Mega Millions uses a 5/70+1/25 system from which winning numbers are chosen. Each play costs $1. In some states, players can choose to spend $1 extra to purchase the Megaplier option, which multiplies the prizes 2 to 5 times except grand prize. The minimum Mega Millions advertised jackpot starts at 40 million dollar. Its annuity option is paid in 30 equal annual payments. Winners may choose one lump sum cash payout instead.

Fri Dec 08, 2023 MEGA Millions Payout of U.S.
Numbers Matched	Prizes	# Winners
5 of 5 + Megaball	$395,000,000	2 CA(2)
5 of 5	$1,000,000	0
4 of 5 + Megaball	$10,000	10
4 of 5	$500	282
3 of 5 + Megaball	$200	750
3 of 5	$10	18,604
2 of 5 + Megaball	$10	17,881
1 of 5 + Megaball	$4	147,761
Megaball Only	$2	374,016

Fri Dec 08, 2023 MEGA Millions Payout of New York(w/o Megaplier)
Numbers Matched	Prizes	# Winners
5 of 5 + Megaball	$0	0
5 of 5	$1,000,000	0
4 of 5 + Megaball	$10,000	2
4 of 5	$500	25
3 of 5 + Megaball	$200	90
3 of 5	$10	1,930
2 of 5 + Megaball	$10	1,990
1 of 5 + Megaball	$4	16,400
Megaball Only	$2	41,561

Fri Dec 08, 2023 MEGA Millions Payout of New York(with Megaplier)
Numbers Matched	Prizes	# Winners
5 of 5	$3,000,000	0
4 of 5 + Megaball	$30,000	0
4 of 5	$1,500	3
3 of 5 + Megaball	$600	17
3 of 5	$30	279
2 of 5 + Megaball	$30	278
1 of 5 + Megaball	$12	2,487
Megaball Only	$6	6,600

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