The Mega Millions Friday night jackpot was at an estimated $640 million, with a record-setting pay-me-now cash value of $462 million (before taxes).
The winning number is: 46, 23, 38, 4, 2 and the Mega Ball is 23. A Maryland lottery official said a winning ticket was sold in Baltimore County. As of shortly after midnight, it was too early to know if other winning tickets had been sold.
With an estimated $640 jackpot -- a record in the United States -- Texans spent millions of dollars on lottery tickets Thursday and Friday.
Between midnight Friday and 3 p.m., Texans spent more than $13.1 million on Mega Millions $1 tickets. On Thursday, $10,015,395 in Mega Millions tickets were sold, with 1.1 million of those tickets sold between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Friday's busiest hour was between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m., when $2.35 million in tickets were sold.
Texas is expected to hit $94 million in ticket sales, far behind the anticipated sales of $333 million in California and $189 million in New York. In all, the lottery is expected to generate sales of $1.4 billion for this drawing.
"That's an awful lot of money, no matter how you choose-all at once or over the next 26 years," said Gary Grief, executive director of the Texas Lottery before Tuesday's drawing. "Texas hasn't had a Mega Millions jackpot winner since 2010, so I think we're past due for a big winner."
Two Texans, one in Weatherford and another in Palestine, each won $250,000 in Tuesday night's drawing after matching five of the numbers, but not the sixth number, the Mega Ball.
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