A lottery ticket worth $3 million was sold in New Jersey for Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawing.
Lottery officials will disclose where the second-prize ticket was bought later Wednesday. It matched five numbers but not the Mega Ball.
Tuesday’s winning numbers were: 7, 26, 33, 45 and 56 . The Mega Ball drawn was 19 .
No one hit the $547 million jackpot, pushing the top prize for the next drawing on Friday to an estimated $575 million with a cash option of $264.6 million.
There were two other second-prize tickets bought — both in California. One is valued at $4 million, the other at $5 million.
No one has won the top prize since someone who bought a ticket in Virginia won a $348 million prize on June 27. Since then. 29 drawings have been held.
Players have a 1 in 12,607,306 chance