Once again Friday the 13th Mega Millions got lucky. A single ticket holder from the US state of Maine is about to celebrate the New Year in a big way.
All six numbers opened on Friday night – 30, 43, 45, 46 and 61, plus the Gold Mega Ball 14 matched by a single ticket holder in the state of Maine. The prize will be an estimated $1.35 billion ($724.6 million in cash), making it the second-biggest jackpot in Mega Millions history!
Friday night’s jackpot win is the seventh on a Friday the 13th since the game began in 2002, and the first on such a day since October 2017. The record Mega Millions jackpot remains $1.537 billion, won by a single ticket in South Carolina on October 23, 2018.
According to the Mega Millions, this 26-drawing jackpot run ends with a bang, with 7,072,832 winning tickets across all nine prize tiers in the January 13 drawing alone, including the jackpot-winning ticket. Fourteen tickets matched all five white balls to win the game’s second-tier prize of $1 million. Four were sold in New York, two in California, and one each in Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Texas.
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