Powerball Continues To Roll, Winning Mega Millions Ticket Sold In Michigan

METRO DETROIT, MI — The Powerball lottery game continued its streak of rollovers on Saturday night with no one matching all of the numbers. It’s the eighth straight rollover, with the jackpot now sitting at $156 million and a cash payout of $98.3 million.

The winning Powerball numbers were: 2, 7, 18, 26, 31 with a Powerball of 12. (For more local news, click here to sign up for real-time news alerts and newsletters from Dearborn Patch, click here to find your local Michigan Patch. Also, follow us on Facebook, and if you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)

For just the sixth time in Mega Millions history, a jackpot won won on Friday the 13th. This time there were two lucky winning tickets, according to lottery officials. One was sold in Michigan and the other in Rhode Island.

They will share the $42 million jackpot ($26,266,417 cash value), having matched all six numbers drawn: the white balls 2, 7, 18, 26 and 31, plus the gold Mega Ball 12. The final jackpot amount was adjusted slightly based on actual sales.

Also Friday night, one ticket sold in New York matched the five white balls to win $1 million. Some consider Friday the 13th to be unlucky, but not for the newest millionaires and previous Mega Millions jackpot winners on the infamous day in Ohio (November 2015), New York (March 2009) and especially Michigan (which in addition to Friday’s winner already had three jackpot winners on a Friday the 13th, in June 2014, May 2011 and June 2008).

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