Mega Millions: ticket holder in Maine wins $1.35bn jackpot

Friday the thirteenth proved fortunate for one – somebody who received the estimated $1.35bn lottery jackpot after a interval of three months and 25 drawings that had seen nobody throughout the US win the grand prize.

The winner, whose identify just isn’t but recognized, overcame steep odds of 1 in 302.6 million and had purchased their ticket in Maine, the primary time the state has scored the Mega Tens of millions lottery jackpot.

“Congratulations to the Maine state lottery, which has simply received its first-ever Mega Tens of millions jackpot,” Pat McDonald, Ohio lottery director and lead director of the Mega Tens of millions Consortium, mentioned in a press release early Saturday.

Mega Tens of millions is performed in 45 states in addition to Washington, DC, and the US Virgin Islands.

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 jackpot on this sport was received in October 2018 – $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 say the complete $1.35bn, the winner would want to take the cash in an annuity with annual funds over 29 years. Most jackpot recipients choose the decreased however faster money choice, which for Friday night time’s drawing was an estimated $724.6m.