Update:
Lottery officials say someone purchased a winning quick pick ticket from this store/gas station in Merritt Island, Florida.The winner will split the $400 million jackpot with another winner, who officials say purchased the ticket in Maryland.
The jackpot is the sixth-largest lottery prize in U.S. History and is the third largest Mega millions prize.
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The Illinois Lottery is announcingthat anotherMega jackpot has amassed in it's Mega Millions game:
Illinoisans are hoping to score some luck this St. Patrick's Day with Mega Millions' $400 million jackpot. The jackpot rolled Friday night and its estimated $400 million prize is the third-largest jackpot in Mega Millions history.
The winning numbers from Friday's drawing were: 07 - 20 - 40 - 54 - 69 and the Mega Ball was 12. The current jackpot has been growing since January 7 and has rolled 20 times without a grand-prize winner. While no one won Friday's jackpot, over 193,000 Illinoisans won prizes ranging from $5,000 to $3.
Illinois residents 18 and over who want to try their luck on the game can purchase their Mega Millions, Powerball and Lotto tickets by using the Illinois Lottery's new mobile app. The free app is available for download on iOS and Android devices and is the first of its kind in the United States offering any Illinois adult the chance to purchase lottery tickets via an app. Players can also purchase their tickets online at www.illinoislottery.com <http://www.illinoislottery.com> or at more than 8,200 retailers across the state.
The $400 million jackpot can be attributed in part to changes made to Mega Millions this past October that include larger starting jackpots, a minimum $1million second prize, and new matrixes of 1-75 for the first five numbers and 1-15 for the Mega Ball number. One thing that did not change is the price of a Mega Millions ticket: which starts at $1.
Since Illinois introduced its first multi-state lottery game, Mega Millions (previously the Big Game) has contributed over $1 billion to the Illinois Common School Fund and Capital Projects Fund.
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Top 5 Largest Mega Millions Jackpots
Rank Amount Date Number of Winning Tickets States With Winning Tickets
1 $656 million 3/30/2012 3 Kansas, Illinois, Maryland
2 $648 million 12/17/2013 2 California, Georgia
3 $400 million Current Jackpot
4 $390 million 3/6/2007 2 Georgia, New Jersey
5 $380 million 1/4/2011 2 Idaho, Washington
QUICK MEGA MILLIONS <https://www.myillinoislottery.com/en-us/games/megamillions.html> FACTS
Current jackpot is $400 million with a cash option of $224 million; after withholding: $156.8 million
Overall odds of winning the jackpot 1:258,890,850
Mega Millions is currently played in 45 jurisdictions: 43 states plus Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Mega Millions jackpots start at $15 million
Drawings are held Tuesdays and Fridays at 10 p.m. CST
About Illinois Lottery <http://www.illinoislottery.com/en-us/home.html>
Founded in 1974, the Illinois Lottery has contributed over $18 billion to the state's Common School Fund to assist K-12 public schools, as well as hundreds of millions of dollars to the Capital Projects Fund and to special causes like Illinois Veterans, the fight against breast cancer, MS research, and assistance for people living with HIV/AIDS. In addition to playing in-store, the Illinois Lottery offers online and mobile play for Mega Millions, Powerball and Lotto at illinoislottery.com. Players must be at least 18 years old.
Source: http://www.kwqc.com/story/24996107/mega-millions-jackpot-grows-to-400-million
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