- A lottery player won the $1.12 billion Mega Millions jackpot in New Jersey on Tuesday night
- The winner can claim the 8th largest lottery prize in US history on an annuity basis, spread over 30 years, or receive a one-time cash payment of $537.5 million
- The recipient, who has not yet been named, beat the odds of 1 in 302.6 million with numbers 7, 11, 22, 29, 38 and 4
A lottery player won the $1.12 billion Mega Millions jackpot in New Jersey on Tuesday night.
The lucky winner broke a winless streak that had resulted in a rollover of the top prize since December 8.
The magic numbers were: 7, 11, 22, 29, 38 and 4.
The charmed punter, who has not yet been named, beat odds of 1 in 302.6 million to claim the top prize.
The recipient can claim the eighth largest lottery prize in US history for the full $1.12 billion on an annuity basis, spread over 30 years, or receive a one-time cash payment of $537.5 million.
A lottery player won the $1.12 billion Mega Millions jackpot in New Jersey on Tuesday night
The findings come as Wednesday’s Powerball Jackpot drawing soared to $865 million from a $1.1. Tonight will be the billion Mega Millions prize drawing – the eighth largest prize in US history
The winner may be able to escape the spotlight of their newfound wealth, as New Jersey is one of 16 states that allow lottery winners to remain anonymous.
Mega Millions is played in 45 states plus Washington, DC and the US Virgin Islands.
However, a new study shows that Delaware has the highest percentage of lottery winners of any US state.
Lottery Geeks analyzed the number of Powerball and Mega Millions winners in every state in the US and compared it to their total population. The study did not assess whether these states happened to have a higher number of lottery players, as that data is not available.
Delaware is home to 10 Powerball winners out of a population of 989,948. It means that the state has 10.10 winners per 1 million inhabitants.
A new study from Lottery Geeks has found that the First State has the highest percentage of Powerball winners of any US state
However, there have been no Mega Millions winners, dropping the total number of lottery winners to 5.05 in every million.
It was followed by New Hampshire, which has 11 Powerball winners for a population of 1,377,529 – or eight winners per million residents. In third place was Rhode Island, with a winning rate of 7.29 winners per million people.
Indiana came in fourth and has the highest number of champions overall, at 39. This means residents of the state – which has a population of 1,097,379 – have a 5.75 in a million chance of winning the jackpot.
The top ten was completed by: Missouri, Nebraska, West Virginia, Kansas, Minnesota and Kentucky.
The study also looked at which states were home to any Mega Millions winners.
The results showed that Indiana and Missouri each had two, while Kansas, Minnesota, Rhode Island and New Hampshire had one.
The data comes from lottery data, while population numbers are tracked from the US census.
