A single ticket offered in Georgia won the approximated $980 million Mega Millions prize, which is the 8th biggest in its history, the lotto revealed Saturday.
The last time somebody took home such a lofty reward remained in December 2024, when a California gamer captured a $1.269 billion reward.
” After growing because completion of June, the Mega Millions prize was won for simply the 5th time this year on Friday night. A single ticket offered in Georgia matched all 6 numbers in the November 14 illustration– the white balls 1, 8, 11, 12 and 57, plus the gold Mega Ball 7– to win the approximated $980 million reward ($ 452.2 million money),” the lotto stated.
” It’s without a doubt the biggest reward ever won in the month of November, and the 8th biggest prize in the history of the video game,” the lotto included, keeping in mind that, “in the 40 illustrations because the prize was last won at $348 million in Virginia on June 27– the most illustrations in a single prize run in the video game’s history– there were nearly 14.3 million winning tickets at all reward levels.”
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” With the brand-new greatly-enhanced reward worths, overall non-jackpot rewards won were almost $343.4 million,” it likewise stated. “These consist of 21 second-tier rewards of $2 million or more (won in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York City, North Carolina, Texas and Virginia).”
Mega Millions altered its format in April, raising ticket costs from $2 to $5 per play.
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The modification in cost will speed up prizes much quicker and permit the lotto to raise the beginning prize from $20 million to $50 million.
The record is still the Florida reward in August 2023, at $ 1.602 billion.
“$ 980 million is the biggest prize that’s been won because the Mega Millions video game altered back in April,” Joshua Johnston, lead director for the Mega Millions Consortium, stated in a declaration.
FOX Service’ Daniella Genovese added to this report.
Source: Fox News.
