$3M Mega Millions Ticket Sold In VA, $10K Winner In Fredericksburg

FREDERICKSBURG, VA — Nobody won Friday's $977 million Mega Millions jackpot, but a ticket worth $3 million was sold in Vinton, Virginia. Plus a $10K winning ticket was purchased in Fredericksburg.

The jackpot is currently estimated at $1.1 billion, with a$525.8 million cash value, for the next drawing on Tuesday, March 26.

A total of 72,413 Mega Millions tickets bought in Virginia won prizes in the Friday, March 22, drawing. That includes one ticket that won $3 million and three tickets that each won $10,000.

Friday night's winning numbers were: the white balls 3, 8, 31, 35 and 44, plus the gold Mega Ball 16.

The Virginia ticket that won $3 million did so by matching the first five numbers in Friday’s drawing. The only number it did not match was the Mega Ball number. Normally that wins $1 million, but the player spent an extra dollar for the Megaplier when buying the ticket. That extra dollar tripled the prize to $3 million. The ticket was bought online by a player in Roanoke County.

One of the three $10,000 winning tickets in the state was bought at Route 1 BP, 2307 Emancipation Highway, in Fredericksburg.

Mega Millions drawings are held Tuesday and Friday nights at 11 p.m. The odds of matching all six numbers to win the jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350. The odds of winning any prize are 1 in 24.

All Virginia Lottery profits go to K-12 education in Virginia. In Fiscal Year 2023, the Lottery raised more than $867 million for K-12 education, making up approximately 10 percent of Virginia’s total K-12 school budget.