The game is coordinated by state lotteries. Mega Millions is played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. A clerk at the Speedway store who answered the phone but declined to give his name, said the store has not been officially notified officially that it sold the winning ticket and that he learned about it from reporters calling for comment. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 302.5 million.Īccording to the Illinois Lottery, the store that sold the ticket is a pretty big winner, too it will receive half a million dollars just for selling the ticket. Earlier, Illinois Lottery officials had estimated the winning take at $1.28 billion. Most winners opt for the cash option, which for Friday night's drawing was an estimated $780.5 million. The $1.337 billion prize is for winners who choose the annuity option, paid annually over 29 years.

That's 29 consecutive draws without a jackpot winner. It grew so large because no one had matched the game's six selected numbers since April 15. The jackpot was the nation's third-largest lottery prize. 'We're eager to find out who won and look forward to congratulating the winner soon!' 'We are thrilled to have witnessed one of the biggest jackpot wins in Mega Millions history,' Ohio Lottery Director Pat McDonald, the current Lead Director for the Mega Millions Consortium, said in a statement on the lottery's website. Buy tonight’s Mega Millions tickets online with no muss and no fuss.CHICAGO - Someone in a Chicago suburb beat the odds and won a $1.337 billion Mega Millions jackpot.Īccording to, there was one jackpot-winning ticket in the draw Friday night, and it was bought at a Speedway gas station and convenience store in Des Plaines. Here in Pennsylvania, take advantage of the PA online lottery. Finally, in second place is the $1 billion jackpot won in Michigan on Jan. This jackpot is the world’s largest lottery prize ever won on a single ticket. In total, 23 jackpots were worth more than $300 million, with the record-holding $1.5 billion jackpot won in South Carolina on Oct. Out of this amount, 20 jackpots were shared by two or more winning tickets in a lottery pool. The history of success continues with 198 jackpots won by 223 individual tickets. Then, the second jackpot winner was crowned just a short week later, making for two jackpot winners in the first three drawings. A $28 million jackpot was won by a ticket sold in Illinois. The Mega Millions officially kicked off on May 17, 2002 and there was a jackpot winner for the premier drawing.

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