Texas Lottery Confirms Mega Millions Million Dollar Win Tuesday

Monday night's Powerball lottery game in Texas produced two new Lone Star Millionaires. The million-dollar Powerball winners were sold in Hempstead, Texas, and Corpus Christi, Texas.

Not be outdone, Mega Millions, the other multi-state lottery game available in Texas has just confirmed via the Texas Lottery that it has produced a Texas millionaire based on the results of Tuesday night's drawing.

Mega Millions fans in Texas went into Tuesday night knowing the game's jackpot was estimated to be just over $330 million. When the ping pong balls dropped on Tuesday the Mega Millions drawing suggested the top prize was in fact, $331 million.

Speaking of Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing, here is how that looked.

The numbers we observed rolling out of the hopper were:

19   23   30   33  50   Megaball 25   Megaplier x2

Use those numbers for reference but please do verify your tickets at either the Official Mega Millions Website or the Official Texas Lottery Website. Those sites allow you to check multiple tickets at once and can verify prize winnings. You can also find information on how to redeem your prizes via either of those websites.

Here's an interesting observation from Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing, two of the numbers, 30 and 33, were both winning numbers in Monday's Powerball. Those who study numbers might find that "coincidence" intriguing.

We do know that in addition to the one million dollar winner on Tuesday the Mega Millions game also was responsible for two $10,000 winning tickets, ten tickets earned a prize of $1,000 and another thirty-three tickets can lay claim to a prize of $500.

Our sources at Mega Millions tell us there was also a Match 5 Million winner sold in Illinois. The sources at the Texas Lottery in Austin have confirmed that Tuesday's Match 5 Million winner in Texas purchased the winning ticket in Amarillo. The big-money winner was purchased at Toot' n Totum #3 on Amarillo Boulevard.

Since there was no jackpot winner in Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing the jackpot will now climb to an estimated $358 million for the annuity and $169.7 million for the lump sum payout. The next Mega Millions drawing is scheduled for Friday night at 10 p.m. Texas time.

Tonight's Powerball jackpot is an estimated $154 million. That is the annuitized estimated jackpot. The estimate for the lump sum payout in Wednesday's Powerball drawing is $73.3 million. That drawing is scheduled for 10 p.m. Texas time.

Please remember most lottery tickets purchased are not winners. Spend only what you can afford to lose. If you have a gambling problem call 1-800- GAMBLER. The call and the referrals are free.