{"id":104912,"date":"2024-03-27T18:05:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T18:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/ticket-sold-in-new-jersey-matches-all-mega-millions-winning-numbers-for-1-13-billion-prize\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T18:05:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T18:05:34","slug":"ticket-sold-in-new-jersey-matches-all-mega-millions-winning-numbers-for-1-13-billion-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/ticket-sold-in-new-jersey-matches-all-mega-millions-winning-numbers-for-1-13-billion-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticket sold in New Jersey matches all Mega Millions winning numbers for $1.13 billion prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-03-26\/GettyImages_MegaMillions_032624.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Tayfun Coskun\/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; A single ticket sold at a ShopRite liquor store in Neptune Township, New Jersey, had all of the winning numbers in Tuesday evening&#8217;s drawing for the Mega Millions $1.13 billion jackpot.<\/p>\n<p>The winning numbers were 7, 11, 22, 29, 38 and gold Mega Ball 4.<\/p>\n<p>The winner has yet to come forward, according to the lottery.<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen tickets from across nine of the Mega millions-eligible states matched five numbers to each win $1 million. One of those tickets was a multiplier, bumping the prize up to $2 million.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sixth time the Mega Millions jackpot prize has surpassed $1 billion. Tuesday&#8217;s jackpot win is the fifth-largest prize in the history of the game.<\/p>\n<p>There were 30 consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner before Tuesday. The last jackpot was won on Dec. 8.<\/p>\n<p>The jackpot prize has a cash value of $537.5 million, which can be offered as a one-time lump sum payment or an immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments.<\/p>\n<p>The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350, according to Mega Millions.<\/p>\n<p>Mega Millions is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tickets are $2 for one play.<\/p>\n<p>The largest Mega Millions jackpot prize ever won was a $1.6 billion prize won on Aug. 8, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tayfun Coskun\/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) &#8212; A single ticket sold at a ShopRite liquor store in Neptune Township, New Jersey, had all of the winning numbers in Tuesday evening&#8217;s drawing for the Mega Millions $1.13 billion jackpot. The winning numbers were 7, 11, 22, 29, 38 and<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/ticket-sold-in-new-jersey-matches-all-mega-millions-winning-numbers-for-1-13-billion-prize\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}