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NEW YORK (WABC) -- A azygous ticket-holder successful Maine volition beryllium celebrating a precise blessed caller twelvemonth aft that summons is the lone 1 to lucifer each six numbers drawn successful Friday night's Mega Millions drawing.
The prize is an estimated $1.35 cardinal ($724.6 cardinal cash), which is the second-largest jackpot successful the past of the game!
The numbers drawn precocious Friday nighttime were: 30, 43, 45, 46, 61 and golden Mega Ball 14.
Up successful Maine, the proprietor of "Hometown Gas and Grill" successful Lebanon is anxious to spot who bought the fortunate summons from his store.
"Your wheels commencement turning. Once I got the quality from the lottery committee aboriginal this morning. Right after, I checked my ain tickets. I'm excited to find retired who it is. Hopefully it's a section who tin definite enactment it to bully use," Fred Cotreau said.
Even if you weren't that 1 winning ticket-holder, don't propulsion your tickets retired conscionable yet. Tickets worthy $1 cardinal were sold successful Manhattan, Long Island City, and different areas of New York.
The jackpot had been rolling since it was past won connected October 14, erstwhile a $502 cardinal prize was shared by winning tickets successful California and Florida.
This 26-drawing jackpot tally ends with a bang, with 7,072,832 winning tickets crossed each 9 prize tiers successful the January 13 drafting alone, including the jackpot-winning ticket. Fourteen tickets matched each 5 achromatic balls to triumph the game's second-tier prize of $1 million. Four were sold successful New York, 2 successful California, and 1 each successful Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Texas.
For matching 4 achromatic balls positive the Mega Ball, 164 tickets person a third-tier win. Of those, 27 included the optional Megaplier (available successful astir states with an other $1 purchase), which was 2X connected Friday night; they are worthy $20,000 each. The remaining 137 second-tier winning tickets instrumentality location the modular $10,000 prize.
The chances of winning a Mega Millions drafting are slim astatine 1 successful astir 303 million.
Friday night's jackpot triumph is the seventh connected a Friday the 13th since the crippled began successful 2002, and the archetypal connected specified a time since October 2017.
Michigan has been peculiarly fortunate with Mega Millions jackpots connected Friday the 13th, winning 4 of them (June 2008, May 2011, June 2014 and October 2017). That 2017 jackpot was shared with a victor successful Rhode Island. Other jackpots connected Friday the 13th person been won successful New York (March 2009) and Ohio (November 2015). None of them, however, came adjacent successful size to the estimated $1.35 cardinal won this time.
Here is simply a look astatine the 10 largest U.S. jackpots that person been won and the states wherever the winning tickets were sold:
1. $2.04 billion, Powerball, Nov. 8, 2022 (one ticket, from California)
2. $1.586 billion, Powerball, Jan. 13, 2016 (three tickets, from California, Florida, Tennessee)
3. $1.537 billion, Mega Millions, Oct. 23, 2018 (one ticket, from South Carolina)
4. $1.35 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 13, 2023 (one summons from Maine)
5. $1.337 billion, Mega Millions, July 29, 2022 (one ticket, from Illinois)
6. $1.05 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 22, 2021 (one ticket, from Michigan)
7. $768.4 million, Powerball, March 27, 2019 (one ticket, from Wisconsin)
8. $758.7 million, Powerball, Aug. 23, 2017 (one ticket, from Massachusetts)
9. $731.1 million, Powerball, Jan. 20, 2021 (one ticket, from Maryland)
10. $699.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 4, 2021 (one ticket, from California)
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The recognition for the caller large prizes is really owed to mathematics -- and much hard odds.
In the autumn of 2017, lottery officials approved changes to Mega Millions that importantly lengthened the likelihood from 1 successful 258.9 cardinal to 1 successful 302.6 million. They made akin changes to Powerball successful October 2015, worsening the likelihood from 1 successful 175.2 cardinal to 1 successful 292.2 million.
The thought was that by making jackpots little common, summons gross could physique up week aft week, creating elephantine prizes that would pull attraction and propulsion successful much players who had grown blasé astir $100 cardinal oregon $200 cardinal apical prizes.
In August 2021, Powerball besides added a 3rd play drawing, which enabled the jackpot to rotation implicit and turn adjacent much rapidly arsenic radical had much chances to play, and lose. Mega Millions has stuck with the 2 play drawings.
Thanks to those moves, 9 of the apical 10 largest lottery prizes person been won since 2017.
Mega Millions is played successful 45 states arsenic good arsenic Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Powerball drawings are besides streamed present connected Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday astatine 10:59 p.m.
Mega Millions drawings are streamed connected Tuesday and Friday astatine 11:00 p.m.
The New York Lottery is North America's largest and astir profitable, contributing billions of dollars to assistance enactment acquisition successful New York State.
Revenue is distributed to section schoolhouse districts by the aforesaid statutory look utilized to administer different authorities assistance to education. According to the New York lottery, the look takes into relationship some a schoolhouse district's size and its income level; larger, lower-income schoolhouse districts person proportionately larger shares of Lottery schoolhouse funding.
For much accusation astir the New York lottery and to spot lottery results, delight sojourn nylottery.ny.gov..
New Yorkers struggling with a gambling addiction, oregon who cognize idiosyncratic who is, tin find assistance by calling the State's toll-free, confidential HOPEline astatine 1-877-8-HOPENY (1-877-846-7369) oregon by texting HOPENY (467369). Standard substance rates whitethorn apply.
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