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A single ticket offered in Georgia received the estimated $980 million Mega Tens of millions jackpot, which is the eighth largest in its historical past, the lottery introduced Saturday.
The final time somebody took dwelling such a lofty prize was in December 2024, when a California participant nabbed a $1.269 billion prize.
“After rising because the finish of June, the Mega Tens of millions jackpot was received for simply the fifth time this 12 months on Friday night time. A single ticket offered in Georgia matched all six numbers within the November 14 drawing – the white balls 1, 8, 11, 12 and 57, plus the gold Mega Ball 7 – to win the estimated $980 million prize ($452.2 million money),” the lottery mentioned.
“It’s by far the most important prize ever received in the month of November, and the eighth largest jackpot within the historical past of the sport,” the lottery added, noting that, “within the 40 drawings because the jackpot was final received at $348 million in Virginia on June 27 — essentially the most drawings in a single jackpot run within the sport’s historical past — there have been nearly 14.3 million successful tickets in any respect prize ranges.”
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Numbers on tickets for the Mega Tens of millions lottery are chosen by a purchaser in Los Angeles, California, on Aug. 4, 2023. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP by way of Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
“With the brand new greatly-enhanced prize values, whole non-jackpot prizes received have been almost $343.4 million,” it additionally mentioned. “These embody 21 second-tier prizes of $2 million or extra (received in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Texas and Virginia).”
Mega Tens of millions modified its format in April, elevating ticket costs from $2 to $5 per play.
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Lottery tickets for the Mega Tens of millions lottery are bought from a liquor retailer the place successful tickets have been offered on Dec. 27, 2024, in Hawthorne, Calif. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP / Getty Photographs)
The change in value will speed up jackpots a lot quicker and permit the lottery to lift the beginning jackpot from $20 million to $50 million.
The file continues to be the Florida prize in August 2023, at $1.602 billion.
A person holds Mega Tens of millions lottery tickets on July 29, 2022, in New York Metropolis. (John Smith/VIEWpress / Getty Photographs)
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“$980 million is the most important jackpot that’s been received because the Mega Tens of millions sport modified again in April,” Joshua Johnston, lead director for the Mega Tens of millions Consortium, mentioned in an announcement.
FOX Enterprise’ Daniella Genovese contributed to this report.
