![]() Winning ticket for $1.337 billion Mega Millions jackpot sold in IllinoisĪ winning ticket for Friday night’s $1.2 billion Mega Millions jackpot was sold in Illinois, according to the Illinois Lottery website. "We won’t know whether it’s an individual or it's a lottery pool until the winner comes forward to claim their prize," National Mega Millions spokeswoman Danielle Frizzi-Babb said.Įmily Irwin, managing director, Advice & Planning, at Wells Fargo’s Wealth & Investment Management, said Friday that the winner should consider keeping a low profile and resist going on an eyebrow-raising spending spree that everyone knows the winner cannot afford. ![]() And the winning ticket may have been bought by a group of people. Illinois is among the states where winners of more than $250,000 can choose to not reveal their names and Camelot Illinois spokeswoman Emilia Mazur said the vast majority of those winners do just that.Įven lottery officials may not know for a while who won because winners don’t have to come forward straight away. In all, there were more than 14.4 million winning tickets sold across all nine prize tiers in the July 29 drawing, including the single jackpot-winning ticket. Of those, 68 also included the optional Megaplier and are worth $20,000 each the remaining 307 won the standard $10,000 prize. Officials said 375 tickets matched four white balls plus the Mega Ball for third-tier wins. $1M MEGA MILLIONS TICKET BOUGHT AT ILLINOIS GAS STATION The other 20 second-tier prizes are worth $1 million each and were won in 15 different states: two each in Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, North Carolina and Texas and one each in California, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Six of them included the optional Megaplier (available in most states with an extra $1 purchase), which was 2X on Friday night, and are worth $2 million each: Three were sold in Florida, and one each in Arkansas, Iowa and Pennsylvania.Ī Mega Millions jackpot winning ticket was purchased at a Speedway location in Des Plaines, Ill., Friday, July 29, 2022. Twenty-six tickets matched all five white balls to win the game’s second-tier prize. The game is coordinated by state lotteries. Mega Millions is played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. A clerk at the Speedway store who answered the phone but declined to give his name said the store has not been officially notified that it sold the winning ticket and that he learned about it from reporters calling for comment. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 302.5 million.Īccording to the Illinois Lottery, the store that sold the ticket is a pretty big winner, too it will receive half a million dollars just for selling the ticket. SHOULD YOU TAKE A LUMP SUM OR ANNUAL PAYOUTS? Most winners opt for the cash option, which for Friday night’s drawing was an estimated $780.5 million. The total prize is for winners who choose the annuity option, paid annually over 29 years. Lottery officials had estimated the winning take at $1.28 billion, but revised the number up to $1.337 billion on Saturday.
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