CLEVELAND — Although nobody hit the $510 million jackpot in the Mega Millions lottery drawing for Friday, Dec. 23, 2022, there were still plenty of people who won smaller prizes throughout Ohio.
The Ohio Lottery says there were thousands of different winning tickets sold in the state with varying prizes as listed below.....
$2,000 prize: 9 winners
$800 prize: 10 winners
$500 prize: 20 winners
$40 prize: 603 winners
$16 prize: 2,376 winners
$10 prize: 1,896 winners
$8 prize: 5,960 winners
$4 prize: 7,143 winners
$2 prize: 17,601 winners
The winning numbers in the Friday night drawing are 15, 21, 32, 38, 62 and Mega Ball 8. The Megaplier was 4x.
The Mega Millions jackpot now grows to an estimated $565 million, which features a cash option worth $293.6 million. The next drawing will take place on Tuesday, Dec. 27 at 11 p.m.
Mega Millions lottery officials say the odds of hitting the jackpot are one in 302,575,350. The odds of hitting a $1 million winning ticket are listed at one in 12,607,306.
Editor's note: Video in the player above features the historic $2.04 billion Powerball drawing from Nov. 8, 2022.
Are you feeling lucky? Ohio has recently seen some big winners in previous lottery drawings. Those winners include...
- Dec. 16 drawing in Lucky For Life: Winning tickets hits $7.3 million in Akron
- Dec. 10 drawing in Powerball: Winning ticket hits $1 million -- see where the lucky ticket was sold
- Nov. 25 drawing in Rolling Cash 5: Jackpot worth $711,000 hit in Northeast Ohio -- see where the winning ticket was purchased
- Nov. 8 drawing in Powerball: One lucky ticket hit a $1 million prize -- see where the winning ticket was purchased
- Nov. 5 drawing in Classic Lotto: One lucky ticket hit the $39.3 million jackpot -- see where the winning ticket was purchased
- Nov. 2 drawing in Mega Millions: A $1 million winning ticket was sold in Northeast Ohio -- see where the lucky ticket was purchased
- Nov. 1 drawing in Powerball: Two $1 million winning tickets in Ohio -- see where the winning tickets were sold.
- Oct. 15 drawing in Powerball: $1 million winning ticket sold in Lyndhurst -- see where the winning ticket was purchased.
- Sept. 10 drawing in Powerball: $2 million winning ticket sold in Columbus -- see where the winning ticket was purchased.
- Sept. 10 drawing in Lucky For Life game: $500,000 winning ticket sold in Rootstown -- see where the winning ticket was purchased.
- Sept. 8 drawing in Lucky For Life game: $500,000 winning ticket sold in Elyria -- see where the winning ticket was purchased.
- Aug. 23 drawing in Mega Millions: $1 million winning ticket sold in Findlay – see where the winning ticket was purchased.
- July 26 drawing in Mega Millions: $3 million winning ticket sold in Saint Clairsville; $1 million winning ticket sold in Berea – see where the winning tickets were purchased.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The video at the top of the story previously aired on 3News on July 29, 2022
