{"id":878423,"date":"2025-12-17T23:26:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T05:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/17\/mega-millions-90m-jackpot-drops-in-new-jersey\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T23:26:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T05:26:04","slug":"mega-millions-90m-jackpot-drops-in-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/17\/mega-millions-90m-jackpot-drops-in-new-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega Millions $90M Jackpot Drops in New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Someone in <strong>New Jersey<\/strong> has all the reasons to check their <strong>Mega Millions<\/strong> lottery ticket and hope that they won the Tuesday, <strong>December 2<\/strong> drawing. A single ticket-holder now has the key to a $90 million prize purse that will be paid out by the lottery as soon as the person verifies their identity.<\/p>\n<p>The lottery did not provide too many details about the win, other than to confirm the winning numbers as <strong>17<\/strong>, <strong>25<\/strong>, <strong>26<\/strong>, <strong>53<\/strong>, <strong>60<\/strong>, and the <strong>Megaball <\/strong>\u2013 <strong>16<\/strong>. The person who won will now have the opportunity to claim the winnings as either an annuity or a straight-up payout.<\/p>\n<p>Most people go for the all-cash-now option, which, in the case of the <strong>$90 million<\/strong>, will amount to <strong>$41.9<\/strong> million. This new win comes only several weeks after another person landed the $983 million in Georgia.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Jerome Garc\u00eda<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamblingnews.com\/news\/mega-millions-90m-jackpot-drops-in-new-jersey\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone in New Jersey has all the reasons to check their Mega Millions lottery ticket and hope that they won the Tuesday, December 2 drawing. A single ticket-holder now has the key to a $90 million prize purse that will be paid out by the lottery as soon as the person verifies their identity. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":878424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28963,4906],"tags":[16296,5874],"class_list":{"0":"post-878423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jackpot","8":"category-millions","9":"tag-jackpot","10":"tag-millions"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}