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The winning numbers for the Mega Millions lottery game for February 28, offering a jackpot prize of $60 million with a cash value option of $44.9 million, were revealed on Friday at 11 p.m. ET.
The numbers drawn on were 14, 2, 3, 41, 64 for the white balls and the yellow Mega Ball was 17, according to the Mega Millions website.
No one managed to bag the top jackpot prize or second prize of $1 million. But nine lucky winners did match the first four white balls and the yellow Mega Ball correctly. This win earned them each $10,000, while one managed to get the Megaplier prize, which doubled their prize value to $20,000.
There were also 244 winners who matched the numbers of the first four white balls, which awarded them $500 each, with 39 Megaplier winners who doubled their winnings to $1,000.
Other wins included 601 players who matched the first three white balls and the Mega Ball, earning them each $200, while 106 of them doubled winnings to $400.
Tens of thousands of other players won several smaller prizes, valued from $2 to $10. Thousands of these players earned a Megaplier prize of up to $20 each.
The next Mega Millions draw will be on Tuesday, March 3, at 11 p.m. ET, with the jacket prize now set at $65 million with a cash option of $48.6 million.
The Mega Millions lottery began on May 17, 2002, which saw a player win the $28 million jackpot prize. Mega Millions has since awarded 19 jackpot prize wins, collectively worth more than $300 million. The biggest jackpot ever won was worth $1.537 billion.
The first Mega Millions jackpot win of 2020 was on February 11 when a ticket sold in New Jersey won $202 million.
Last year saw seven lucky jackpots win in New York, New Jersey, Missouri, California, New Hampshire, Texas, and Ohio.
Back in 2018, five tickets purchased in Florida, New Jersey, Ohio, California, and South Carolina won jackpot prizes.
How to play Mega Millions
Mega Millions drawings take place every Tuesday and Friday at 11:00 pm ET. Five white balls are drawn from a set of balls numbered 1 through 70, while one yellow Mega Ball is drawn from a balls numbered 1 through 25. You win if the numbers on your lottery ticket match the numbers of the balls drawn on that date.
There are nine ways to win a prize, valued from $2 to the jackpot. If no one wins the jackpot, the money is added to the top prize for the following drawing. The chances of winning a prize are 1 in 24, the Mega Millions website states.
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