Mega Millions $1.28B jackpot winning ticket sold in Illinois, lottery website says

Somebody in Illinois gained the $1.28 billion jackpot in Friday evening’s Mega Million’s jackpot drawing.

The Illinois lottery web site exhibits at the least one ticket matched all 5 of the numbers plus the Mega Ball.

The profitable numbers are: 13 – 36 – 45 – 57 – 67 MegaBall: 14

Friday’s jackpot was the lottery’s second-largest prize in its 20-year historical past, and it got here with a money worth choice of $742.2 million.

The State of Illinois is a winner too. A portion of the hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in lottery gross sales go in the direction of public training and particular causes.

The following drawing is Tuesday at 11:00 p.m. ET, in keeping with the lottery’s web site.

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The chances of profitable the jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350.

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Mega Thousands and thousands are bought in 45 states, Washington DC and the US Virgin Island. It is performed each Tuesday and Friday evening, Within the 20-year historical past of the sport, 221 gamers have scooped the Mega Thousands and thousands jackpot.

Prime 5 Mega Thousands and thousands jackpots gained

1. $1.5 billion – South Carolina, October 2018

2. $1 billion – Michigan, January 2021

3. $656 million – Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, March 2012

4. $648 million – California, Georgia, December 2013

5. $543 million – California, July 2018

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