The summer celebration is in full swing.
A lucky Mega Millions player in Florida won the $800 million jackpot Tuesday night, the largest prize for the lottery game this year.
The winning numbers were 34, 48, 49, 59, 70 and the gold Mega Ball 12.
The unidentified ticketholder can choose between the $800 million prize or a one-time $344.2 million cash payout.
The odds of hitting a jackpot are 1 in 290,472,336.
It is the tenth largest prize in game history, surpassing the $656 million jackpot shared by three winners from Illinois, Kansas and Maryland in March 2012.
Two other ticketholders matched all five white balls, winning the second-tier prize.
One winner in New York won $3 million by using the 3 times multiplier. Another player in Illinois won $5 million by playing the 5x multiplier.
It was not immediately clear where the three tickets were purchased.
Florida, which has six Mega Millions grand prize recipients in the game’s history, has its first winner since August 2023, when two winning tickets were sold in a span of three drawings.
The first, on August 8, holds the record for the largest Mega Millions jackpot in history, when Saltines Holdings, LLC, in Neptune Beach, Florida, claimed the $1.62 billion prize.
The second drawing, on August 15, matched the numbers for the $39 million pot but went unclaimed, according to the state lottery.
Tuesday’s win is the first time the Mega Millions jackpot has been hit since March 17, when The Happy Trails Trust struck gold and won the $60 million prize in Van Wert, Ohio.
A week earlier, an anonymous online player in Illinois won the $536 million grand prize on March 10.
Both winners have chosen the cash sum option, earning them $27.1 million and $245.6 million, respectively.
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