US lottery player Wins $1.3 billion Mega Millions jackpot

One of the largest jackpots ever has been won by a lucky US lottery player in the Mega Millions game, a US lottery official announced on Saturday.

A single ticket holder in the Midwestern state of Illinois, who has not yet been identified, reportedly had the six winning numbers and won a jackpot of an estimated $1.337 billion, according to the official Mega Millions website.

According to Pat McDonald, lead director of the Mega Millions Consortium, “We are thrilled to have witnessed one of the biggest jackpots wins in Mega Millions history.”We’re eager to find out who won and look forward to congratulating the winner soon!”

For more than three months, the big prize had been steadily increasing, feeding the hopes of potential winners all around the nation. 29 prior lotteries had resulted in the reward is unclaimed.

According to US official statistics, the odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are one in 303 million, which is much higher than the one-in-a-million likelihood of being hit by lightning.

Though that amount was split among three winners, Friday’s total is less than the global record of $1.586 billion achieved in January 2016 by America’s second national lottery, the Powerball.

The second-largest prize was awarded in a Mega Millions drawing in October 2018 for $1.5 billion, making it the greatest prize ever won by a single person.

The total amount a winner would be entitled to if they accepted the reward divided up over a 30-year annuity is represented by the $1.337 billion number for Friday’s drawing.

According to Mega Millions, the total amount would drop to $780.5 million if the lucky winner chose to accept the prize as a lump sum payment.

Then taxes would eat up a sizeable portion, leaving the winner with an impossibly enormous payout.

Even before receiving their prize money, winners are typically urged to see financial counsellors right once.

Robert Pagliarini, a financial consultant, advises huge winners to “stand outside the crazy of the circumstance for a while” and consider carefully what aspects of their lives they “don’t want to change.”

One can play the Mega Millions lottery in 45 US states. Friday’s winning numbers were 13, 36, 45, 57, 67, and 14.

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