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Winning Mega Millions ticket worth $1 million sold in Northeast Ohio: Here's where it was purchased

The lucky Mega Millions numbers for the Tuesday night drawing are 23, 29, 36, 61, 70 and Mega Ball 22.
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File photo: Mega Millions lottery ticket. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

MENTOR, Ohio — Although nobody hit the $374 million jackpot in the Mega Millions drawing on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, one very lucky lottery ticket sold in Northeast Ohio just hit a prize worth $1 million.

The Ohio Lottery says the winning ticket was sold at a Speedway in Mentor, hitting the $1 million prize after matching the five white balls. This ticket just missed the jackpot for failing to match the Mega Ball.

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In addition to that $1 million winner, the Ohio Lottery says there were thousands of others who hit smaller prizes throughout the state. Here's the full list of prizes that were won in the Tuesday night drawing:

  • $1 million prize: 1 winner
  • $2,000 prize: 2 winners
  • $800 prize: 10 winners
  • $500 prize: 12 winners
  • $200 prize: 29 winners
  • $40 prize: 450 winners
  • $16 prize: 1,685 winners
  • $10 prize: 1,123 winners
  • $8 prize: 4,285 winners
  • $4 prize: 3,826 winners
  • $2 prize: 9,933 winners

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The lucky Mega Millions numbers for the Tuesday night drawing are 23, 29, 36, 61, 70 and Mega Ball 22. The Megaplier option for this drawing is 4x.

The Mega Millions jackpot now climbs to $398 million with a cash option worth $197.9 million. The next drawing will take place at 11 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 9.

Lottery officials say the odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are one in 302,575,350.

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