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Mega Millions Jackpot provides both loses and wins for single ticket purchased in Illinois. while a single ticket bought in Illinois; Chicago could win $1.337 billion Mega Millions jackpot after beating the odds, thousands of people and sometimes tens of thousands of people may have indirectly contributed to the jackpot by their purchases which makes them losers.
So while one person smiles home with the prize money, others are effective losers in this game where the majority are losers while a single person becomes the winner.
There was
one jackpot-winning ticket in the draw Friday night, and it was bought at a
Speedway gas station and convenience store in Des Plaines, The Associated Press
quoted megamillions.com.
Mega millions winning numbers
The winning
numbers were: 13-36-45-57-67, Mega Ball: 14.
“We are
thrilled to have witnessed one of the biggest jackpot wins in Mega Millions
history,” Ohio Lottery Director Pat McDonald, the current Lead Director for the
Mega Millions Consortium, said in a statement on the lottery’s website,
according to The Associated Press. “We’re eager to find out who won and look
forward to congratulating the winner soon!”
The jackpot
was the third-largest lottery prize. The jackpot was so large because no one
had matched the game’s six selected numbers since April 15 which means 29
consecutive draws without a jackpot winner, according to The Associated Press.
Lottery
officials estimated the winning take at $1.28 billion, but revised the number
up to $1.337 billion on Saturday.
The total
prize is for winners who choose the annuity option, paid annually over 29 years
but there is also the cash option which was set at $780.5 million for Friday
night’s draw.
The odds of
winning the jackpot are 1 in 302.5 million, according to The Associated Press.
Mega
Millions is played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C, and the U.S. Virgin
Islands and is coordinated by state lotteries.