No one came away with a winning ticket for the $640 million jackpot, meaning it climbs even higher ahead of Friday's drawing.
TAMPA, Fla. — While the two major nationwide lottery jackpots remain elusive, Florida continues to be a lucky state for newly-minted millionaires.
Nobody won Tuesday night's estimated $640 million Mega Millions jackpot, but eight tickets sold matched the five white ball numbers, winning $1 million. This includes a ticket sold in Florida.
The Mega Millions jackpot grows to an estimated $720 million ahead of Friday's drawing.
Only one person came away with more than $1 million in Tuesday night's drawing — a ticketholder in Maryland chose the Megaplier and matched the five white ball numbers, coming away with $4 million.
In recent drawings over the last few weeks, multiple people in Florida have come away with million-dollar winning tickets. In Monday's Powerball drawing, a $1 million ticket was sold at an M2 Food Mart on South MacDill Avenue in Tampa.
Last week, another million-dollar ticket was sold in Florida during a Powerball drawing.
The estimated Powerball jackpot ahead of Wednesday's drawing is $1 billion, the third-largest in the game's history. Neither Powerball nor Mega Millions have had jackpot winners since April, and this week's Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots are worth more than $1.7 billion combined.
Mega Millions hasn't seen a grand prize winner since April 18, when a 71-year-old man from New York won the state's largest Mega Millions jackpot ever. Johnnie Taylor of Howard Beach in Queens, New York, won $476 million but opted for the cash option — a lump sum of more than $157 million after taxes.
Mega Millions winning numbers for July 18, 2023:
The winning numbers were 19-22-31-37-54, Mega Ball 18 and Megaplier 4.
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The game's giant prizes come with minuscule chances of actually winning — winners overcome odds of roughly 1 in 302.6 million.
TEGNA Digital contributed to this report.
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