Maine gets 1st Mega Millions jackpot with $1.35B grand prize

DES MOINES, Iowa — (AP) — Maine scored its first Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpot — and somebody beat the ailing 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 identify shouldn’t be but recognized, overcame steep odds of 1 in 302.6 million, which led to 3 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 Hundreds of thousands jackpot,” Pat McDonald, Ohio lottery director and lead director of the Mega Hundreds of thousands Consortium, stated in a press release early Saturday.

The jackpot was the second largest in Mega Hundreds of thousands historical past and the fourth time the sport has had a billion-dollar win. The biggest Mega Hundreds of thousands 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 of unfortunate.

To assert the complete $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 decreased however faster money choice, which for Friday night time’s drawing was an estimated $724.6 million.

The following 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 offered in New York, two in California and one every in Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Texas, Mega Hundreds of thousands stated.

Mega Hundreds of thousands is performed in 45 states in addition to Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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