The $1.337 billion jackpot is for winners who choose the annuity option, with the prize paid over 29 years.
Lottery officials reported the amount rose to $1.337 billion Saturday morning, according to the Mega Millions site. Three winning tickets were purchased in Florida, while the other winners were sold in Arizona, Iowa and Pennsylvania.Īt the time of Friday's drawing, the jackpot was $1.28 billion. Six tickets matched all five numbers except for the Mega Ball and included the Megaplier worth $2 million. Those winners were located in California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin. Winning the prize: If you win the Mega Millions jackpot, here's what you need to knowĪlso in Friday's drawing, 26 tickets won $1 million prizes – matching all five numbers except for the Mega Ball. 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. “Congratulations to the Illinois Lottery for selling the winning ticket,” Pat McDonald, Ohio Lottery director and current lead director for the Mega Millions Consortium, said in a news release. The Speedway store also gets a cash bonus of $500,000 for selling the winning ticket. The winner has netted the largest lottery prize ever won in Illinois, according to the Illinois Lottery.
The lucky ticketholder in Illinois won it all, beating the 1 in 303 million odds of winning the game's jackpot. Mega Millions didn't identify the ticket holder by name as of Saturday morning. The winning numbers for the $1.337 billion jackpot (with an estimated cash option of $780.5 million) were: 13-36-45-57-67, Mega Ball: 14. It also marks the nation's third-highest lottery prize yet, across all games.
The closely-watched jackpot, which climbed by hundreds of millions in just the last week alone, is the second-largest in Mega Millions' history. Watch Video: Odds of winning the Powerball and Mega Millions are NOT in your favorĪ shopper at a Speedway gas station and convenience store in Des Plaines, Illinois, won the whopping, almost $1.34 billion Mega Millions jackpot Friday night, according to the lottery game's website.