Connecticut Lottery player wins $30K from Mega Millions as jackpot grows to $637 million
A selection of numbers are picked for the Mega Millions lottery at a liquor store in Hawthorne, California, in a file photo.
The player won $30,000 in the drawing Friday. The Mega Millions player matched four white balls and the Mega Ball to win an initial $10,000 prize. The prize then was tripled due to a 3X multiplier used on the ticket.
The prize had not been claimed as of Tuesday morning, according to Connecticut Lottery’s website.
The Connecticut Lottery player was one of five Mega Millions players in the U.S. to win a $30,000 prize during Friday’s drawing, according to Mega Millions’ website. The odds of winning $10,000 in the Mega Millions is 1 in 893,761, according to Connecticut Lottery.
The current estimated Mega Millions grand prize jackpot amount is $637 million with a cash option of $278 million. The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot is 1 in 290,472,336, according to the Mega Millions website.
If no Mega Millions players win in Tuesday night’s drawing, the jackpot prize amount is on its way to becoming one of the top 10 highest jackpots in the game’s history. Currently, the tenth-highest Mega Millions jackpot was $656 million in 2012, according to Mega Millions’ website.
Tickets for the Mega Millions game start at $5, and 4,566 winning tickets were produced in Connecticut for Friday’s drawing.
To play Mega Millions, players must pick six numbers from two separate pools of numbers — five different numbers from 1 to 70 (the white balls) and one number from 1 to 24 (the gold Mega Ball) — or select Easy Pick/Quick Pick. Players win the jackpot by matching all six winning numbers in a drawing. In the event of multiple jackpot winners, the jackpot prize will be shared.
Mega Millions drawings take place every Tuesday and Friday.
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