Mega Millions Jackpot: Florida Ticket Holder Wins $1.58 BILLION Prize – Biggest Total in Lottery History
- The winning numbers were 13, 19, 20, 32, 33 with a golden Mega Ball of 14 – which matched a lucky player in Florida, according to the lottery website.
- That person will now have the option of claiming a one-time lump sum of approximately $757.2 million, or choosing to claim the full prize in 29 annual installments.
A person in Florida has won the Mega Millions prize of $1.58 billion, making it the biggest total in lottery history.
The ticket winner will now have the option of claiming a one-time lump sum of approximately $757.2 million, or choosing to claim the full prize in 29 annual installments.
The winning numbers were 13, 19, 20, 32, 33 with a golden Mega Ball of 14 – which matched a lucky player in Florida, according to the lottery website.
The $1.58 billion prize is just above the $1.537 billion Mega Millions win in South Carolina in October 2018, according to lottery officials.
Before Tuesday evening, no ticket matched the six numbers drawn for almost four months, since April 18.
The ticket winner will now have the option of claiming a one-time lump sum of approximately $757.2 million, or choosing to claim the full prize in 29 annual installments.
A person in Florida has won the Mega Millions prize of $1.58 billion, making it the biggest total in lottery history. The winning numbers were 13, 19, 20, 32, 33 with a golden Mega Ball of 14 – which matched a lucky player in Florida, according to the lottery website.
Tuesday night’s jackpot was the third largest in US lottery history.
Mega Millions tickets, which cost $2 each, are sold in all states except Alabama, Utah, Alaska, Hawaii and Nevada.
The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot were approximately 1 in 302.6 million. These odds are worse than the 1 in 11.5 million chance of being bitten by a shark or the 1 in 700,000 chance of giving birth to identical quadruplets.
Although there have been no Mega Millions jackpot winners in recent months, the year has started off with a number of wins.
“This year began with six jackpot winners in less than four months – a number far more typical of a full year and indicative of the truly random nature of lottery draws,” the lottery said.
There have been a string of recent Billion Dollar Lotto winners, including two separate Billion Dollar Powerball winning tickets sold in California.
A single ticket matched all six numbers drawn on July 19, meaning someone had won the third-highest prize ever in the multi-state lottery.
Although the winner is known, lottery officials confirmed that the winning ticket was sold by a Los Angeles convenience store a few blocks from the Skid Row homeless encampments.
California lottery officials previously confirmed that the Las Palmitas mini-market was the store where the winning ticket was sold. Its owner, Nabor Herrera, will also receive a $1 million Powerball bonus.
Herrera said he didn’t realize he had sold the winning ticket until he arrived at work early Thursday and saw cameras camped outside the store, which he initially thought was for a movie scene.
And it was the second time in less than a year that a Californian had won gold. In February, Edwin Castro came forward to claim the winnings from November’s $2.04 billion draw. He elected to take the lump sum of $997.6 million.
