Mega Millions: full list of winning numbers as person wins $1.35bn jackpot, where ticket was sold

A single ticketholder has matched all six numbers to win an estimated 1.35 billion dollars in the US Mega Millions lottery.

It comes after three months of draws which failed to produce a winner. The front page of the lottery’s website stated there has been a winner of the jackpot in the state of Maine.

The site also says the next grand prize will be for 20 million dollars (£16.3 million) and the cash option will be 10.7 million dollars (£8.7 million), indicating there was a winner of the estimated 1.35 billion-dollar prize. Mega Millions officials did not immediately release a statement about the jackpot winner.

The 1.35 billion dollar grand prize is for a winner who takes an annuity with annual payments over 29 years. Winners almost always choose the cash option, which for Friday night’s drawing was an estimated 724.6 million dollars (£593.4 million).

There had been 25 draws in a row without a jackpot winner, but that streak ended with someone beating the odds of one in 302.6 million to take the top prize. The jackpot is the fourth-largest in US history.

Mega Millions is played in 45 states as well as Washington, DC, and the US Virgin Islands. Here is all you need to know:

What were the winning numbers?

The full list of winning numbers on the billion dollar Mega Millions draw were: 30, 43, 45, 46, 61 and gold Mega Ball 14.

Where was the ticket sold?

It was sold in Maine - so make sure to triple check your ticket if you purchased one in the state!

How much has been won?

The prize ended up being $1.35 billion ( 724.6 million dollars cash).

This is the latest Mega Millions jackpot to be won over the last 12 months. The fun started with a $426 million prize in California on January 28 2022, followed by $128 million in New York on March 8, $110 million in Minnesota on April 12 (that state’s very first Mega Millions jackpot win), and $20 million in Tennessee on April 15. $1.337bn was on by a ticket holder in Illinois in July.

What is the record win on the lottery?

The $1.35bn win on the Mega Millions was actually just the fifth largest jackpot ever won in the game’s 20 year history.

It is topped by the $1.537 billion won in South Carolina on 23 October 2018. For reference, the National Lottery in the UK’s record win is £195,707,000 on the EuroMillions.

How have Mega Millions reacted?

Ohio Lottery Director Pat McDonald, currently serving as Lead Director for the Mega Millions Consortium, said: “Congratulations to the Illinois Lottery for selling the winning ticket for the $1.337 billion Mega Millions jackpot.

“We are thrilled to have witnessed one of the biggest jackpot wins in Mega Millions history. We’re eager to find out who won and look forward to congratulating the winner soon! Better still, this exciting jackpot run has had a significant positive impact on the revenues for good causes raised by our member lotteries.”

What other prizes were won on Friday?

While the jackpot win is the big news, there were other big prizes won Friday night.

Twenty-six tickets matched all five white balls to win the game’s second-tier prize.

Six of them included the optional Megaplier (available in most states with an extra $1 purchase), which was 2X on Friday night, and are worth $2 million each: Three were sold in Florida, and one each in Arkansas, Iowa and Pennsylvania.

The other 20 second-tier prizes are worth $1 million each and were won in 15 different states: two each in Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, North Carolina and Texas; and one each in California, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

For matching four white balls plus the Mega Ball, 375 tickets have a third-tier win. Of those, 68 also included the optional Megaplier and are worth $20,000 each; the remaining 307 win the standard $10,000 prize.In total, there were 14,391,740 winning tickets sold across all nine prize tiers in the 29 July drawing, including the single jackpot-winning ticket.

How long has Mega Millions been running?

Orginially known as The Big Game, it launched in 1996.

It was rebranded as Mega Millions in 2002.

Mega Millions is drawn at 11 pm Eastern Time on Tuesday and Friday evenings, including holidays.