Local player wins $10K in Mega Millions; N.J. player gets $1.13B
NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) - The CSRA has another lottery winner after a North Augusta player won $10,000 in Tuesday night’s Mega Millions game.
A customer at Sprint Food Store 737 at 107 Edgefield Road in North Augusta won $10,000. The lucky player matched four white ball numbers and the gold Megaball number to win the $10,000 prize. South Carolina had another $10,000 winner in Myrtle Beach.
Meanwhile, two $1 million tickets were sold in Georgia for matching all five white ball numbers. Six tickets won $10,000 each for matching four white ball numbers and the yellow Mega Ball. None of the winning Georgia tickets were sold in the CSRA.
But the luckiest player was in New Jersey, where someone won the fifth-largest Mega Millions jackpot of $1.13 billion.
The winning ticket was bought Tuesday night by someone who chose the numbers themselves instead of using the system’s Quick Pick option, lottery officials said.
The big win came after 30 consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner.
Miss out on that drawing? No problem. There will be a drawing Wednesday night for an estimated $865 million Powerball jackpot. No one has won that prize either since New Year’s Day, making for 36 drawings without a winner.
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Representatives with the lottery app said the lucky winner decided to purchase the winning ticket while on a break from work.
And if the recent past is any indicator, CSRA residents might have a shot at winning.
Aside from Tuesday night’s win in North Augusta, someone won a Power Play of $100,000 on a ticket sold over the weekend at Mo’s Convenience and Tobacco store in Beech Island.
A couple of weeks ago, a local player won $2 million in Powerball with a ticket purchased at Publix, 5119 Washington Road in Evans.
And that came just a few days after a CSRA lottery player won $2 million on a scratch-off ticket sold at the Circle K at 2948 Whiskey Road in Aiken.
A few weeks earlier, another $2 million ticket was sold at a different Circle K in Aiken.
Mega Millions is played in 45 states plus Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Powerball also is played in those states as well as Washington, D.C., the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
The Mega Millions numbers are drawn at a TV studio in Atlanta and Powerball draws numbers at a Florida Lottery studio in Tallahassee.
Profits from the games fund state programs.
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