The successful ticket for the $1.22 billion Mega Tens of millions jackpot has been offered in California, with the winner set to take residence the fifth-largest prize ever.
The successful ticket was offered in Shasta County on the Circle Ok on 3505 Rhonda Highway in Cottonwood, California, and matched all six numbers in Friday night time’s drawing.
The successful numbers have been 3, 7, 37, 49, 55 and gold Mega Ball 6 and the money worth of the jackpot is estimated to be $549.7 million, in accordance with the lottery.
Nobody has received the grand prize within the final 30 drawings, because the jackpot has ballooned. The final time the jackpot was received was at $810 million in Texas on Sept. 10.
The percentages of successful the jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350, in accordance with Mega Tens of millions.
“Congratulations to our $1.22 billion jackpot winner from California,” mentioned Joshua Johnston, lead director for the Mega Tens of millions Consortium. “What a tremendous current this vacation season! At an extremely particular time of 12 months, that is each an extremely particular second for our winner, and for all the nice organizations and causes that profit from lottery ticket gross sales across the nation. Thanks to everybody who performs. Due to you, we’ve winners throughout the nation taking residence money prizes each massive and small, and we’ve instructional causes, parks and lots of different nice organizations benefiting as properly. Thanks and congratulations to all our winners.”
In complete, there have been greater than 31.4 million successful tickets throughout all prize tiers in the course of the 31-drawing run, which started after the final jackpot was received in Texas on Sept. 10 — together with 65 second-tier prizes of $1 million or extra, received in 26 totally different jurisdictions from coast to coast, in accordance with Mega Tens of millions.
“It is solely the fourth Mega Tens of millions jackpot received in 2024, and with just one extra drawing this 12 months, odds are that the 12 months will finish with the fewest jackpots received in any 12 months because the sport started in 2002,” Mega Tens of millions mentioned following Friday’s drawing. “Along with the $810 million Texas win on September 10, a $552 million windfall went to an Illinois on-line participant on June 4 (the biggest lottery prize ever received with an internet ticket buy), and an enormous $1.128 billion prize was received in New Jersey on March 26.”
Mega Tens of millions is performed in 45 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tickets are $2 for one play.
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