BALTIMORE, MD—The Mega Millions jackpot continues its relentless upward march. After no ticket matched all six numbers drawn on Tuesday night – the white balls 8, 24, 30, 45 and 61, plus the gold Mega Ball 12 – the estimated jackpot rolls to $1.25 billion ($625.3 million cash) for the next drawing on Friday, August 4, 2023. If won at that level, it would be the fourth largest prize in Mega Millions history.
Although no one hit the jackpot, Marylanders won prizes of $2 to $10,000.
Maryland’s two third-tier $10,000 winning tickets were both sold in Anne Arundel County. The winning tickets were sold at Pantry One Food Mart, 1090 Spa Road in Annapolis or South River Colony Exxon at 111 Mitchells Chance Road in Edgewater.
Lottery officials encourage all winners to sign the back of their tickets immediately and put them in a safe location until they can claim their prize. Winners have 182 days from the date of the drawing to claim prizes.
Nationally, the August 1 drawing created more than 4.9 million winning tickets. Maryland has now had three second-tier winners of $4 million and $1 million and 20 third-tier winners of $10,000 to $40,000 during the jackpot run. Since the last jackpot of $20 million was hit in New York on April 18, there have been more than 31.3 million winning tickets across all prize tiers (except the jackpot) nationally, including 53 worth $1 million or more. In Maryland, this jackpot run has generated 812,212 winners.
The last Maryland jackpot win came in March 2014, when Maryland and Florida players split a $414 million jackpot. That winning ticket was sold at Lady’s Liquors in La Plata.
Mega Millions tickets are sold in 47 states and jurisdictions.
