MEGA Billionaire!
The first Mega Millions jackpot-winning ticket of 2024, worth $1.13 billion, was won in New Jersey on Tuesday night.
The winning numbers were 7, 11, 22, 29, 38, and the gold Mega ball 4.
The $1.13 billion jackpot is the 5th largest prize in the lottery’s history.
The new billionaire can receive the $1.13 billion in annual payments or a one-time lump sum estimated at $537.5 million.
Thirteen players — in California, Colorado, Florida (2), Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York (2) and Ohio — matched all five white balls for the $1 million prize.
The odds of winning the Mega Millions is an astronomical 1 in 302,575,350.
Tuesday night’s win was the first time the Mega Millions jackpot was won since Dec. 8, when two tickets in California matched the numbers for the estimated $395 million pot.
The largest Mega Millions jackpot, a whopping $1.602 billion, was sold in Aug. 2023 to a winner inside a Publix supermarket in Neptune Beach, Fla.
A limited liability company, Saltines Holdings, LLC, chose to receive its prize as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $794,248,882.00.
