2023-08-09 14:20:06
A lottery ticket has won $1.58 billion (C$2.12 billion) for its buyer in Florida, the US lottery Mega Millions announced on Tuesday.
This sum exceeds the previous record for this lottery, a jackpot of 1.537 billion dollars won in 2018, according to the company.
“After 31 draws without a winner, one lucky ticket holder in Florida will celebrate the summer of 2023 with a record jackpot, currently estimated at 1.58 billion,” the lottery wrote in a statement on Tuesday.
According to >, this amount, if confirmed, will be the third largest jackpot in US lottery history.
In November 2022, a player in California had won $2.04 billion in the Powerball lottery.
The chance of winning the Mega Millions jackpot is one in 303 million, greater than the chance of being struck by lightning (one in a million), according to data from US health authorities.
The lucky winner, who has not been identified, can choose to cash out C$1,155 million all at once or receive the entire winnings in annual payments spread over 30 years.
The ticket for this lottery, organized in almost all American states, costs 2 dollars.
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