Two Winning Mega Million Tickets Were Sold

Two tickets matched the winning numbers in Tuesday night's $636 million Mega Millions jackpot.

One winning ticket was sold in Atlanta, and the other was sold in San Jose, California, lottery officials said.

The winning numbers were 8, 14, 17, 20 and 39, with a Megaball of 7. Twenty ticket holders will win $1 million after matching all the numbers except for the Megaball.

Strong sales boosted the jackpot to $636 million from the previous estimate of $586 million, lottery officials announced late Tuesday morning.

This jackpot was so large in part because Mega Millions, became tougher to win, no one has won it since organizers increased the pool of numbers to choose from back in October. The odds of hitting the jackpot, which were 1 in 176 million, are now 1 in 259 million.

You have a better chance of being hit by an asteroid. One thousand times better chance!

Oh, but if that Money Asteroid hits,  I will see stars made of money!