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Everything is bigger successful Texas — adjacent the jackpots.
A ticketholder successful the US Mega Millions gully won Tuesday’s $US800 cardinal ($1.2 billion) jackpot astatine a petrol presumption extracurricular Houston, breaking a streak of implicit 20 drawings without a jackpot winner.
The winning numbers were 1, 2, 16, 24, 66, and the golden Mega shot 6.
The summons was purchased astatine Murphy USA 8848 state presumption connected Highway 90A successful Sugar Land, Texas, according to the authorities lottery.
The business, which volition person $1 cardinal for selling the jackpot-winning ticket, sits crossed the thoroughfare from Constellation Field, the location ballpark for the Sugar Land Space Cowboys insignificant league shot team, and 34km southwest of downtown Houston.
It is the 15th clip a jackpot-winning Mega Millions summons was sold successful Texas, and the archetypal since October 6, 2023, erstwhile Blue Yucca Trust won the $US361 cardinal prize ($541 million).
The likelihood of winning the Mega Millions are an astronomical 1 successful 302,575,350.
The fortunate victor tin assertion the $US800 cardinal successful yearly payouts oregon take the one-time currency payout of $US404.2 cardinal ($605.6 million).
Prize winners who triumph much than $1 cardinal successful Texas tin take to stay anonymous, according to authorities law.
Four different fortunate players — from New York, California, Florida and Washington authorities — matched the 5 achromatic balls to unafraid a $1 cardinal prize.
The ticketholder successful New York purchased the fortunate gaffe from a Gulf Express petrol presumption successful New Windsor.
Tuesday’s victor marks the 3rd clip the Mega Millions expansive prize was won successful 2024, down the $US1.13 cardinal ($1.69 billion) prize sold connected March 26 and the $US552 cardinal ($827 million) connected June 4.
The adjacent drafting — connected Friday the 13th — reverts to $US20 cardinal ($29.9 million).
The largest Mega Millions jackpot ever won, worthy $US1.62 cardinal ($2.43 billion), was sold astatine a supermarket successful Neptune Beach, Florida, successful August 2023.
The historical summons was claimed by Saltines Holdings LLC., which chose to assertion the one-time, lump-sum outgo of $US794,248,882.
This nonfiction primitively appeared connected the New York Post and was reproduced with permission
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