A Mega Millions ticket worth $1 million was sold in New Jersey for Tuesday’s lottery drawing as the jackpot went without a big winner on New Year’s Eve. The second-prize Mega Millions ticket matched five of the winning numbers but not the Mega Ball drawn. Second-prize tickets worth $1 million were also sold in Florida and Minnesota.

A New Jersey lottery player closed out the year with a bang by winning $1 million in the Mega Millions drawing on Tuesday.

The Powerball jackpot increased again after it remained unclaimed, but one lucky person won a couple million on Christmas.

The sole winner of a $1.13 billion Mega Millions jackpot has begun the process of collecting the prize, the New Jersey Lottery said Monday.

The Mega Millions jackpot for Tuesday’s lottery drawing has climbed to an estimated $1 billion, with a cash option of $448.8 million. The winning numbers were: 11, 14, 38, 45, 46 The Mega Ball drawn was 3 with a Megaplier of 3x.

No tickets were sold with all six numbers in Tuesday evening’s drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery, pushing the estimated jackpot for Friday’s drawing to $42 million. According to Lottery officials,

Twenty-four lottery players in New Jersey won $10,000 or more last week playing Powerball, Mega Millions and New Jersey Lottery games.

It wasn't the Mega Millions billion-dollar jackpot, but a lucky New Jersey lottery player also won a jackpot on Friday - a $494,401 Jersey Cash 5 jackpot. The New Jersey Lottery announced Monday that a Burlington County ticket matched the five balls to win.