VA $2 Million Winner As $1B Mega Millions Jackpot Is Won

Manassas VA

23 January, 2021

8:30 PM

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VIRGINIA — One $2 million ticket was sold in Virginia on Friday while the $1 billion Mega Millions jackpot was won by a player in Michigan. Friday night's Mega Millions drawing again produced millions of winning tickets, including a single lucky jackpot ticket purchased at a Kroger store in the Detroit suburb of Novi. That was the only ticket to match all six numbers drawn on Jan. 22 – the white balls 4, 26, 42, 50 and 60, plus the gold Mega Ball 24. In Friday night's drawing alone, more than 214,000 Mega Millions tickets bought in Virginia won prizes. That includes one ticket that won $2 million, one ticket that won $20,000, and six tickets that each won $10,000. Here's where all of those winning tickets were bought: $2 million winner:• Wilderness Road Market, 3952 US Highway 23 North, Gate City $20,000 winner:• Harris Teeter, 19350 Winmeade Drive, Leesburg $10,000 winners: • 7-Eleven, 8211 Old Centreville Road, Manassas Park• Fas Mart, 2600 East Main Street, Richmond• JR. Market, 3601 East Ocean View Avenue, Norfolk• Martin's Food Market, 15361 Montanus Drive, Culpeper• Beach Shell, 705 22nd Street, Virginia Beach• Ticket purchased via online play at valottery.com Friday's billion-dollar prize was the second-largest in Mega Millions history and third-largest in U.S. lottery history, trailing only the $1.586 billion Powerball jackpot in January 2016 and the $1.537 billion Mega Millions jackpot in October 2018, according to the Maryland Lottery. The cash option for the Jan. 22 Mega Millions drawing was $739.6 million before taxes.