ATLANTA -- Somebody, actually 4 somebodies, got very rich Friday night.

Lottery officials say there were four winning tickets for the $330 million Mega Millions drawing.

The lucky numbers were 44, 40, 22, 18, 8 and the Mega Ball is 11.

Winning tickets were sold in Maryland, New Jersey, Texas and Virginia.

Three players matched five numbers, but missed on the Mega Ball. They will collect $250,000 each.

Mega Millions is played in 12 states including: California, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Texas, Virginia and Washington.

When the jackpot hit $330 million the ticket-buying buzz turned into a frenzy.

"I'm not real good at the lottery, but the jackpot's so big," Wallace, a 31-year-old computer technician who bought two $1 tickets at a Savannah convenience store. "I happened to look up and see it on a sign and said, `Oh, I have to play the lottery."'

The mega-jackpot was paying off for Savannah retailers near Georgia's border with South Carolina, which isn't among the 12 states where Mega Millions tickets are sold.

Peggy Davis, a manager at Brown's Chevron in downtown Savannah, said the store had sold more than $1,000 in Mega Millions tickets by noon Friday.

"That's about two or three times what we'd normally sell by that time of the day," said Davis, who expected heavier sales once people left work. "There will probably be a line in here at the end of the day."

The jackpot for the next drawing on Tuesday night will be $12 million.

You can see that drawing on WSB-TV Channel 2 right before Action News at 11.