The Saturday night Powerball jackpot is estimated at $288 million, said Teja.
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A ticket with all six numbers in Friday night’s multi- state Mega Millions draw was sold in IN and its owner must decide whether to take the $540 million jackpot spread out over 30 years or $380 million, before federal taxes, immediately. As of midday Saturday, it had not been claimed.
“In addition to the jackpot win Tuesday night, there were 10 Match 5 winning tickets sold around the country”. That person has not yet been identified, either.
A Mega Millions lottery ticket is printed out of a lottery machine at a convenience store in Chicago, Friday, July 8, 2016.
The current prize is the game’s biggest since December 2013, when holders of two tickets sold in California and Georgia shared a $648 million jackpot. The jackpot got bumped up to half-a-billion dollars since no one claimed the original $449 million prize on July 5, and the lucky victor of the $540 million is…?
“Congrats to the one #MegaMillions jackpot victor in Indiana”, California Lottery tweeted early Saturday morning, following the July 8 draw, who has yet to crown a victor.
It’s the seventh biggest prize in USA lottery history, surpassing an August 2013 Powerball prize of $448.4 million.
The Hoosier Lottery says the winning ticket for the Mega Millions jackpot worth an estimated $540 million was sold at a gasoline station in eastern Indiana.
Someone is $1 million richer after the Cumberland Farms store in Sharon sold a winning Mega Millions ticket.
The victor has 180 days from the drawing to come forward.
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