Friday the thirteenth proved to be lucky for a Maine lottery player who hauled within the second-largest jackpot within the history of Mega Hundreds of thousands with a $1.35 billion winning ticket — the seventh time the drawing took place on the unfortunate date in its two-decade history.
Lottery officials said on Saturday that a lone ticket holder within the Pine Tree State was the just one to match all six numbers drawn the previous night — 30, 43, 45, 46 and 61, plus the gold Mega Ball 14 — after the jackpot had been constructing because it was last won on Oct. 14, when a $502 million prize was shared by winners in California and Florida.
The winning ticket was sold at Hometown Gas & Grill in Lebanon, Maine Lottery officials tweeted.
The winner would should take annual annuity payments over the subsequent 29 years to get your entire $1.35 billion, although most winners take the more-immediate money option, which was an estimated $724.6 million for Friday’s drawing.
It’s the primary Mega Hundreds of thousands win in Maine’s history, Pat McDonald, Ohio lottery director and lead director of the Mega Hundreds of thousands Consortium, said in a press release Saturday.
“It’s the fourth billion-dollar jackpot in Mega Hundreds of thousands history,” he added.
Friday’s grand prize was the seventh Friday the thirteenth win because the game began in 2002 and a runner-up to the biggest Mega Hundreds of thousands win, which stays a $1.57 billion prize won by a single ticket in South Carolina on Oct. 23, 2018.
It is usually the primary jackpot won in 25 straight drawings and closely edges out a $1.3 billion ticket sold in Illinois in July to turn out to be the second-largest grand prize.
The weekend drawing included a complete of seven,072,832 winners across all nine prize tiers, including 14 million-dollar second-place tickets that were sold in Latest York, California, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Texas.
Greater than 160 third-prize tickets were also sold including 27 that included the choice Megaplier, which doubled the usual $10,000 prize.