The fortunate mixture of numbers drawn late Friday night time (Saturday AEDT) have been: 30, 43, 45, 46, 61 and gold Mega Ball 14.
The winner, whose identify just isn’t but identified, overcame steep odds of 1 in 302.6 million, which led to 3 months of drawings with no declare on the jackpot.
The final jackpot was gained at $US502 million ($719.5 million) on October 14, when there have been two successful tickets from California and Florida, the Mega Millions stated.
“Congratulations to the Maine State Lottery, which has just won its first-ever Mega Millions jackpot,” Pat McDonald, Ohio lottery director and lead director of the Mega Millions Consortium, stated in a press release early Saturday (Saturday night time AEDT).
The jackpot was the second largest in Mega Millions historical past and the fourth time the sport has had a billion-dollar win.
The largest Mega Millions jackpot, in October 2018, was $US1.53 billion ($2.2 billion) claimed by a single ticket holder in South Carolina.
It grew to become the third largest lotto win in US historical past, behind two Powerball wins – the richest ever being gained final November, when a single ticket took dwelling the world’s largest prize of $US2.04 billion ($2.9 billion).
It eclipsed the earlier file holder for the US of $US1.59 billion ($2.28 billion) in 2016, the primary time it went over the billion-dollar mark.
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 declare the total $US1.35 billion ($1.9 billion), the winner would wish to take the cash in an annuity with annual funds over 29 years.
Most jackpot recipients want the lowered however faster money choice, which for Friday night time’s drawing was an estimated $US724.6 million ($1 billion).
The subsequent grand prize drawing on Tuesday will drop to an estimated $US20 million ($28.7 million) and a money choice of $US10.7 million ($15.3 million).
Until Friday night time, there had been 25 straight drawings with no jackpot winner.
There have been greater than seven million successful tickets throughout 9 prize tiers on Friday.
Beyond Maine’s jackpot, 14 tickets matched 5 white balls to say the second-tier prize of $US1 million ($1.4 million). Four have been bought in New York, two in California and one every in Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Texas, Mega Millions stated.
Mega Millions is performed in 45 states in addition to Washington, DC, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
