A lottery holder from New Jersey won the fifth-largest lottery ticket, the $1.13 billion Mega Millions jackpot, on Tuesday night. AS diary the report said.
Winners can now choose to cash out $537.5 million in a lump sum or pay the lottery amount annually.
The winner from New Jersey won by 1 in 302,575,350. He is the first recipient of the 2024 award, the last of which was won on December 8 in California.
Today’s Mega Millions jackpot has been reset to $20 million, with the next drawing scheduled for Friday.
The Powerball jackpot is on the verge of hitting $1 billion as no one won Wednesday’s $865 million lottery ticket.
How to win the Mega Millions jackpot?
According to a Harvard professor, the secret is to choose completely random numbers without any pattern. According to statistics, the white ball numbers that appear more often are 31, 17, 46, 20 and 10.
And the most repeated Super Ball numbers are 9, 15, 3, 10 and 1.
Additionally, he said the best way to increase your chances of winning is to buy more tickets with different Super Ball numbers, King 5 the report said.
What is the largest lottery jackpot ever in the United States?
- Powerball jackpot: $2.04 billion, won in November 2022.
- Mega Millions jackpot: $1.602 billion, won in August 2023.
- Powerball: $1.586 billion, won in January 2016.
- Mega Millions jackpot: $1.537 billion, won in October 2018.
- Mega Millions jackpot: $1.348 billion, won in January 2023.
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