Even though no one here hit for the big prize in that record Mega Millions drawing, New Jersey did quite well.

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State lottery director Carol Hedinger says this Mega Millions run turned up a lot of second prize winners. She says there were 19 $250,000 winners, five of them were just this past Friday.

In addition, there have been 139 $10,000 winners from this Mega run that began in late January, 52 just last Friday. Hedinger says the State realized $40 -million in revenue from this Mega run on sales of $96 million. There was also a $1 million winner on March 2nd.

She says, "Certainly, I think we have added revenue from the Lottery this year as a direct result of this jackpot." Hedinger says not only did the State make money from this run of the Mega-Millions, but the ticket sellers also did well, realizing about five-million dollars. She says last year was lackluster for the Mega-Millions. But this year's excitement means New Jersey is way ahead of last year's lottery revenues up to this point.

She called the big jackpot a "mini-stimulus" for New Jersey.

 

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