A ticket sold at Hometown Gas & Grill in Lebanon, Maine, landed its first Mega Millions jackpot, of approximately $1.35 billion, as reported by the lottery.
Pat McDonald, who runs the Ohio Lottery and serves as Principal Director of the Mega Millions Consortium, gave “congratulations to the Maine State Lottery, which has just won its first Mega Millions jackpot,” in a statement. .
“It is the fourth billion dollar jackpot in Mega Millions history,” he adds to the text, published on Saturday.
The combination of numbers drawn on Friday night that won the prize were: 30, 43, 45, 46, 61 and gold Mega Ball 14.
The name of the winner, who beat the odds of 1 in 302.6 million, is still unknown.
Friday’s winning prize is the second largest in this lottery. The first was won by South Carolina, in 2018, with a lottery record of $1.537 billion, Mega Millions reported.
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