Winning ticket for $1.35 billion Mega Millions jackpot sold in Maine – on Friday the 13th - USA TODAY

Someone has yet won the Mega Millions jackpot – connected a Friday the 13th, nary less.

A fortunate summons sold successful Maine matched Friday night's winning numbers to people the lottery game's estimated $1.35 cardinal expansive prize.

Friday's prize is the second-biggest jackpot that Mega Millions has ever seen and fourth-largest across U.S. lottery history. The triumph besides marks the archetypal clip that a Mega Millions jackpot has ever been won successful Maine, according to Mega Millions. 

After nary jackpot victor for 25 consecutive drawings, Mega Millions' apical prize has climbed higher and higher successful caller months. 

Friday's winner, whose sanction is not yet known, overcame the highly slim likelihood of taking location the Mega Millions jackpot – which basal astatine about 1 successful 302.6 million.

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To assertion the afloat $1.35 billion, the victor would request to instrumentality the wealth successful an annuity with yearly payments implicit 29 years. Most jackpot recipients similar the reduced but quicker currency option, which for Friday night’s drafting was an estimated $724.6 million.

Superstitious lottery players whitethorn besides enactment that Friday’s drafting marked the seventh time determination was a Mega Millions jackpot victor connected a Friday the 13th.

Mega Millions winning numbers: Friday, 1/13/23

The winning numbers for Friday night's drawing were 30-43-45-46-61, Mega Ball: 14 and Megaplier was 2X.

Who won Mega Millions past night? Where was the summons sold?

One fortunate summons sold successful Maine matched each six numbers to triumph the estimated $1.35 cardinal Mega Millions jackpot Friday night, Mega Millions said. The winner's sanction is presently unknown.

The summons was sold astatine Hometown Gas & Grill successful Lebanon, Maine, the Maine State Lottery said.

In summation to a jackpot winner, determination were much than 7 cardinal winning tickets sold crossed the lottery game's different prize tiers. Nationwide, 14 tickets matched each 5 achromatic balls to triumph $1 cardinal each, Mega Millions said.

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Four of the winning Match-5 tickets were sold successful New York and two were sold successful California. The remainder came from Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Texas.

$1.35 billion jackpot won connected Friday the 13th

Mega Millions' estimated $1.35 cardinal jackpot was won connected Friday the 13th, which mightiness drawback the oculus of immoderate superstitious lottery players.

Friday's prize is the seventh Mega Millions jackpot that has been won connected a Friday the 13th implicit the years, according to the lottery game.

Friday besides marked 7 years after 3 tickets divided the then-largest lottery jackpot successful U.S. history. On Jan. 13, 2016 (unfortunately a Wednesday, not a Friday), 3 winners cashed successful connected the $1.586 cardinal Powerball prize.

What are the chances of winning Mega Millions?

A elephantine jackpot attracts a batch of players – but it's important to enactment that likelihood of taking location a Mega Millions apical prize are highly slim. Experts accent that radical entering the lottery shouldn't bargain much tickets than they can afford.

"Imagine you constitute the letters to 'Mega Millions' connected idiosyncratic pieces of paper, premix them up, and fto your feline randomly prime letters. Your feline is 5 times much apt to correctly spell 'Mega Millions' than you are to win," Matthew Kovach, an adjunct prof of economics astatine Virginia Tech, told USA TODAY this week.

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Kovach added that you are besides much apt to beryllium struck by lightning doubly successful your beingness than triumph the lottery.

• The likelihood of winning the jackpot are 302,575,350 to 1. 
• The likelihood to lucifer each 5 achromatic balls are 12,607,306 to 1. 

Largest lottery prizes successful US history

1. $2.04 billion, Powerball, Nov. 7, 2022: Won successful California.
2. $1.586 billion, Powerball, Jan. 13, 2016: Three winners successful California, Florida, Tennessee.
3. $1.537 billion, Mega Millions, Oct. 23, 2018: Won successful South Carolina.
4. $1.35 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 13: Won successful Maine 
5. $1.337 billion, Mega Millions, July 29, 2022: Won successful Illinois.
6. $1.05 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 22, 2021: Won successful Michigan.
7. $768.4 million, Powerball, March 27, 2019: Won successful Wisconsin.
8. $758.7 million, Powerball, Aug. 23, 2017: Won successful Massachusetts.
9. $730 million, Powerball, Jan. 20, 2021: Won successful Maryland.
10. $699.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 4, 2021: Won successful California.

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Contributing: The Associated Press. Jennifer Sangalang, Florida Today.