Mega Millions player wins $800M jackpot

Everythin𝓀g is bigger in Texas — even the jackpots!

A Mega Millions ticketholder won Tuesday’s $800 million jackpot at a gas station outside Houston, breaking a streak of over 20 drawings without a jackpot winner.

The w🌜inning numbers were 1, 2, 16, 24, 66, and the gold Mega ball 6.

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The ticket w𓃲as pu𓄧rchased at Murphy USA 8848 gas station on Highway 90A in Sugar Land, Texas, according to the state lottery.

The business, which will💝 receive $1 million for selling the jackpot-winning ticket, sits across the street from Constellation Field, the home ballpark for the Sugar Land Space Cowboys — the Triple-A affiliate of the Houston Astros and 21 miles southwest of downtown Houston.

It is the 15th time a jackpot-winning Mega Millions ticket was sold in Texas, and the first since𒊎 Oct. 6, 2023, when Blue Yucca Trust won the $361 million prize.

The odds of ಌwinning the Mega Millions are an astronomical 1 in 3𓄧02,575,350.

The lucky winner can claim th♛e $800 million in annual payouts o𝔉r choose the one-time cash payout of $404.2 million.

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Prize winners who win more than $1 million in Texas can choose to remain anonymous,ꩵ according ❀to state law.

Four otheജr lucky players — from New York, California, Florida and Washington state — matched the five white balls to🍷 secure a $1 million prize.

The ticketholder in New York purchased the lucky slip from a Gulf Express gas station in New Windsor, 15 miles๊ norღth of West Point.

Tuesday’s winner marks the third time the Mega Millions grand prize was won in 2024, behind the $1.13 billion prize sold on March 26 and the $5ౠ52 million on June 🌄4.

The next drawing — on Friday the 13th — rꦯeverts to $20 million.

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The largest Mega Millions jackpot ever won, worth $1.62 billion, was🅷 sold at a Publix supermarket in Neptune Beach, Fl🎐orida, in August 2023.

The historic ticket was claimed by Saltines Holdings LLC., which chose to claim the one-time, lump-sum𒐪 payment of $794,248,882.00.