The profitable ticket was bought at a Speedway gasoline station in Des Plaines, a couple of 20-mile drive northwest of Chicago, the Illinois Lottery stated. Details about the ticket purchaser was not instantly obtainable Saturday morning.
If the holder chooses a lump sum fee choice, the ticket will earn an estimated one-time fee of $742.2 million. In any other case, the prize of roughly $1.28 billion will probably be unfold over annual funds.
Friday evening’s profitable numbers had been 13, 36, 45, 57, 67 and a Mega Ball of 14. The subsequent draw is Tuesday at 11 p.m. ET.
Another ticket holders additionally picked up main prizes on Friday.
Twenty-six tickets gained a secondary prize of a minimum of $1 million as a result of they matched the primary 5 numbers.
Six of the 26 tickets gained $2 million as a result of patrons not solely matched the primary 5 numbers, but in addition paid an extra $1 to activate the sport’s “multiplier,” which boosts non-jackpot prizes.
The largest jackpot of any US lottery sport was $1.586 billion – a Powerball prize from January 13, 2016, shared by winners from California, Florida and Tennessee.
On Friday evening, the Mega Hundreds of thousands web site grew to become inaccessible for a number of minutes after the draw. Lottery jackpots begin at $20 million and enhance primarily based on sport gross sales and rates of interest, based on its web site.
Mega Hundreds of thousands tickets are offered in 45 states, Washington, DC and the US Virgin Islands, the place the attracts happen Tuesdays and Fridays at 11 p.m. ET. Tickets are offered on-line in Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Virginia and DC, however the purchaser should be on this State.
CNN’s Aya Elamroussi and Steve Almasy contributed to this report.
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