Winning Mega Millions $1.35B ticket sold in Maine

Friday the thirteenth proved to be fortunate for a Maine lottery participant who hauled within the second-largest jackpot within the historical past of Mega Tens of millions with a $1.35 billion profitable ticket — the seventh time the drawing happened on the unfortunate date in its two-decade historical past.

Lottery officers stated on Saturday {that a} lone ticket holder within the Pine Tree State was the one one to match all six numbers drawn the earlier night time — 30, 43, 45, 46 and 61, plus the gold Mega Ball 14 — after the jackpot had been constructing because it was final received on Oct. 14, when a $502 million prize was shared by winners in California and Florida.

The profitable ticket was offered at Hometown Gasoline & Grill in Lebanon, Maine Lottery officials tweeted.

The winner must take annual annuity funds over the following 29 years to get the complete $1.35 billion, though most winners take the more-immediate money possibility, which was an estimated $724.6 million for Friday’s drawing.

It’s the first Mega Tens of millions win in Maine’s historical past, Pat McDonald, Ohio lottery director and lead director of the Mega Tens of millions Consortium, stated in a press release Saturday.

“It’s the fourth billion-dollar jackpot in Mega Tens of millions historical past,” he added.

Friday’s grand prize was the seventh Friday the thirteenth win because the recreation started in 2002 and a runner-up to the biggest Mega Tens of millions win, which stays a $1.57 billion prize received by a single ticket in South Carolina on Oct. 23, 2018.

It’s also the primary jackpot received in 25 straight drawings and intently edges out a $1.3 billion ticket offered in Illinois in July to turn into the second-largest grand prize.

The weekend drawing included a complete of seven,072,832 winners throughout all 9 prize tiers, together with 14 million-dollar second-place tickets that have been offered in New York, California, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Texas.

Greater than 160 third-prize tickets have been additionally offered together with 27 that included the choice Megaplier, which doubled the usual $10,000 prize.