A single Mega Millions ticket sold in Northern California has won the massive $1.22 billion jackpot, making it the fifth-largest prize in the game's history.
One Mega Millions ticket sold in Northern California has won Friday’s estimated $1.22 billion jackpot – believed to be the fifth-largest prize in the history of the game, the lottery says. Friday’s winning numbers were: 3, 7, 37, 49, 55 and Mega Ball 6. The ticket is the first to win the jackpot in over 100 days. Friday’s Mega Millions jackpot amounts to $549.7 million in cash. The prize surged since its last drawing on Christmas Eve, when no winner took home the estimated $1 billion jackpot.
Friday’s grand prize was previously estimated at $1.15 billion but grew ahead of the highly-anticipated drawing. The winning ticket was sold at Sunshine Food & Gas in Cottonwood, Shasta County, according to the California State Lottery. Five other tickets sold in Arizona, California, Texas and Missouri won $1 million each in Friday’s drawing by matching the first five numbers, the lottery said. “We know that many people will likely receive tickets to Friday’s drawing as holiday gifts, and what a gift that would turn out to be if you ended up with a ticket worth a $1.15 billion jackpot,” said Joshua Johnston, lead director for the Mega Millions Consortium in a press release Wednesday. According to the company, this year has had one of the fewest jackpot wins in any single year since the game started in 2002. Only three people have won this year. In 2023, ten jackpots were awarded. There have been 217 jackpots won by 244 individual tickets since the game began. The chances of winning any prize in the lottery game are 1 in 24, according to the Mega Millions website, but the odds of winning a jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350. The largest amount ever won was last year, with a single Florida ticket claiming the prize of $1.602 billion. Concerns have been raised by researchers that the chances of winning the Mega Millions are not only minuscule, but that state lotteries also siphon funds from impoverished communities under the guise of a chance to acquire wealth
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