RELEASE DATE: 3/5/2014
Mega Millions is on a roll, with an estimated jackpot of $270 million ($151 million cash option) for the next drawing on Friday, March 7. California hit a jackpot of another sorts on Tuesday, producing all three of the Match 5 winning tickets for the March 4 draw. The tickets matched the first five numbers (10, 29, 31, 35 and 45) but missed the Mega Ball of 10.
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While the jackpot remains elusive, there have been more than 28.3 million individual winners at all levels since the last jackpot win on January 3. Of those, 23 were Match 5 winners, including one $4 million prize due to the inclusion of the optional Megaplier. In total, the game has produced 90 Match 5 winners of $1 million or more since the game was relaunched last October (California winners are paid on a pari-mutuel basis and their prizes may be more or less than $1 million depending on sales).
The $270 million jackpot is the sixth largest Mega Millions prize offered in the past five years, and in the game's 12-year history, only 10 jackpots have been higher.  Â
The jackpot has been rolling since January 3, when it was hit for $61 million by Bettina "Tina" Still and her son Jonathan, both of Nashville, Tenn.
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