A lucky US lottery player has won a Mega Millions jackpot worth more than US$1.3 billion, one of the highest prizes ever, a US lottery official confirmed Saturday (Jul 30).
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The official Mega Millions site said a single ticket holder in the Midwestern state of Illinois - who has yet to be identified - had the six magic numbers and won a jackpot estimated at US$1.337 billion.
"We are thrilled to have witnessed one of the biggest jackpot wins in Mega Millions history," Pat McDonald, lead director of the Mega Millions Consortium, said on the group's website. "We're eager to find out who won and look forward to congratulating the winner soon!"
The grand prize had been steadily growing, fueling the dreams of would-be winners across the country, for more than three months. The prize had gone unclaimed in 29 previous drawings.
The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are one in 303 million - much higher than the one-in-a-million chance of being struck by lightning, according to US government data.
Friday's total falls short of the world record of US$1.586 billion, set in January 2016 by America's other national lotto, the Powerball, though that sum was split among three winners.
The second-highest prize - and the highest won by a single person - was in an October 2018 Mega Millions drawing for US$1.5 billion.
