Overview
- A ticket purchased at Fry’s Marketplace in Buckeye matched the five white balls and, because the player had a 3x multiplier, the $1 million prize was increased to $3 million.
- Lottery officials said the Buckeye $3 million ticket remained unclaimed as of their last update, leaving the local payout pending.
- No jackpot winner was drawn, so the Mega Millions top prize rolled to an estimated $743 million with the next drawing scheduled for Friday.
- Another large non-jackpot prize was sold in California when a $1 million five-number match was doubled by a 2x multiplier.
- Mega Millions multipliers are randomly assigned at purchase and apply only to non-jackpot prizes, and the long odds of matching five white balls (about one in 290 million) help explain frequent jackpot rollovers and occasional big secondary wins.