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In Illinois, winners of $250,000 or more can request to keep their name and residence anonymous when they claim their earnings. The laws, including whether the names of winners are required to be announced, differ among states. The competing multistate Powerball lottery had a world-record jackpot for the January 2016 drawing for $1.586 billion that was shared by winners in California, Florida and Tennessee.Įach state that participates in Mega Millions oversees the lottery operations within its jurisdiction, including sales, retailers, taxes owed and other financial liabilities. It was the second-largest jackpot for this lottery, edged out by the $1.537 billion winning ticket in South Carolina on Oct. It was not immediately known if any of those tickets won anything. “We are doubling down,” AJ Kumaran, a co-chief executive of the company, said in an interview with LiveNOW from FOX on Thursday. It took a gas station eight hours to print the tickets, but the company remained undeterred, and tried again on Friday. Executives at Raising Cane’s, a chicken-wing restaurant with locations around the United States, purchased one ticket for each of their 50,000 employees for the $830 million drawing on Tuesday. Nevada, Utah, Alabama, Alaska and Hawaii do not, but residents of those states can still purchase tickets elsewhere and then travel to collect a prize.Įxcitement built as the jackpot grew. That brought us to this $1.34 billion moment.įorty-five states, as well as Washington, D.C., and the Virgin Islands, participate in the Mega Millions lottery. The jackpot swelled because no one had matched the five numbers and Mega Ball in any of the previous 29 drawings, held every Tuesday and Friday, since a winning ticket on April 15 in Tennessee. In the highly unlikely event that luck, fate or prayer made you a winner, you will face major life decisions as well as some practical questions: Should you stay anonymous? Is it best to take the lump sum or annual payouts? Do you need a lawyer? The odds of winning the jackpot were long, one in 303 million. Those were sold in Florida, Arkansas, Iowa and Pennsylvania. Six more won $2 million by paying for the optional Megaplier number, which increases the prize money.

In addition to that golden ticket, Mega Millions also announced Saturday that there were more than 14 million other winning tickets sold in more than a dozen states, with prizes as high as $2 million or as little as $4.Īmong those were 20 tickets that won the lottery’s second-tier prize, $1 million, by matching five white balls in the drawing. So we’re telling all of our players - check your tickets.” “We don’t know whether or not they’re aware they’ve won this incredible prize. Odds of winning the jackpot are steep - among things you’re more likely to do than win the lottery are being killed by a shark, being struck by lightning this year and being struck by lightning in your entire lifetime.“We have not heard from the winner yet,” said the director of the Illinois Lottery, Harold Mays. If Friday’s jackpot isn’t claimed, the prize will roll into another to be drawn next week. An additional gold “Mega” ball is then drawn from a set of balls numbered 1-25. Mega Millions explains the numbers are drawn by picking five balls from a set of balls numbered 1-70. Mega Millions tickets cost $2 each and drawings are held at 11 p.m. The largest jackpot in Mega Millions history was $1.537 billion and was claimed in 2018 by a single South Carolina winner. Friday’s $1.28 billion jackpot has a cash value of $747.2 million. There have been over 28.1 million winning tickets of smaller prizes, including 42 worth at least $1 million. The top prize hasn’t been claimed since April 15, though there have been several winners of smaller pots. If you win the $1 billion Mega Millions jackpot, here’s what experts say to do next