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Mega Millions jackpot soars to $1.35 billion, five third-tier winning tickets sold in Maryland

BALTIMORE, MD—Although there was no Mega Millions jackpot winner on Tuesday night, the drawing produced five third-tier $10,000-winning tickets sold in Maryland.

The jackpot for the next Mega Millions drawing on Friday, January 13 rolled to an estimated annuity value of $1.35 billion. If the jackpot is hit at that amount on Friday, it would be the second-largest in Mega Millions history and the fourth-largest in U.S. lottery history. The estimated cash value for Friday’s drawing is $707.9 million.

The winning numbers in the January 10 drawing were 7, 13, 14, 15 and 18; the Mega Ball was 9 and the Megaplier was x3.

There are nine prize tiers in Mega Millions, ranging from $2 up to the jackpot. There were 135,900 winning tickets sold in Maryland for Tuesday’s drawing. The following retailers sold third-tier winning tickets for Tuesday night’s drawing worth $10,000 each:

  • Discount Tobacco & Accessories, 4201 Branch Avenue in Temple Hills (Prince George’s County)
  • Harris Teeter, 1801 Whetstone Way in Baltimore (Baltimore City)
  • State Line Market, 7817 Eastern Avenue in Silver Spring (Montgomery County)
  • Tiger Beer, Wine & Deli, 303 North Washington Street in Rockville (Montgomery County)
  • Watkins Mill Beer & Wine, 857 Russell Avenue in Gaithersburg (Montgomery County)

There were more than 6.1 million winning tickets sold nationally for Tuesday’s drawing, including 16 second-tier winning tickets worth at least $1 million each. The $1 million winners were sold in California, Florida, Kansas, Massachusetts (two), Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio (two), Oregon, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Second-tier winners in Connecticut, Florida and New York added the Megaplier option to their tickets, which tripled their prizes to $3 million.

Mega Millions tickets are sold in 45 states, as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In the 25 drawings since the last jackpot hit (October 18 through January 10), there have been: 68 second-tier winning tickets of at least $1 million and 920 third-tier winning tickets of at least $10,000 sold nationally. There have been a total of 33,271,792 winning tickets sold across all nine prize tiers during this jackpot run.

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