DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Maine scored its first Mega Tens of millions jackpot — and somebody beat the in poor health fortune of Friday the thirteenth — when a ticket bought within the state matched the profitable numbers for the lottery’s estimated $1.35 billion grand prize.
The fortunate mixture of numbers drawn late Friday night time have been: 30, 43, 45, 46, 61 and gold Mega Ball 14.
The winner, whose title is just not but identified, overcame steep odds of 1 in 302.6 million, which led to a few months of drawings and not using a declare on the jackpot.
“Congratulations to the Maine State Lottery, which has simply gained its first-ever Mega Tens of millions jackpot,” Pat McDonald, Ohio lottery director and lead director of the Mega Tens of millions Consortium, stated in a press release early Saturday.
The jackpot was the second largest in Mega Tens of millions historical past and the fourth time the sport has had a billion-dollar win. The biggest Mega Tens of millions jackpot in October 2018 was $1.53 billion claimed by a single ticket holder in South Carolina.
Friday’s affluent drawing additionally marked the seventh time there was a grand prize winner on Friday the thirteenth, a date superstitiously thought-about unfortunate.
To assert the total $1.35 billion, the winner would want to take the cash in an annuity with annual funds over 29 years. Most jackpot recipients choose the lowered however faster money choice, which for Friday night time’s drawing was an estimated $724.6 million.
The subsequent grand prize drawing on Tuesday will drop to an estimated $20 million and a money choice of $10.7 million.
Till Friday night time, there had been 25 straight drawings and not using a jackpot winner.
There have been greater than 7 million profitable tickets throughout 9 prize tiers Friday. Past Maine’s jackpot, 14 tickets matched 5 white balls to say the second-tier prize of $1 million. 4 have been bought in New York, two in California and one every in Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Texas, Mega Tens of millions stated.
Mega Tens of millions is performed in 45 states in addition to Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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