WPBN: Although it has been more than three months since someone won the Mega Millions top prize, officials from the South Carolina Education Lottery announced in a press release that a ticket that was recently sold in the Midlands was just one number away from breaking the streak.
According to the statement, the person who came so close to winning the top Mega Millions jackpot in the drawing held on December 17 will be awarded a jackpot worth forty thousand dollars. This is despite the fact that the top Mega Millions payout is hitting record heights.
Currently, an effort is being made to locate the winner.
Quick Pantry, a petrol station and convenience shop located at 1096 John C. Calhoun Drive in Orangeburg, was the location where the winning ticket, which was worth five figures, was purchased.
During the Mega Millions drawing that took place on December 17, the winning numbers were 56, 66, 67, 68, and 69, and the Megaball was 18.
According to officials affiliated with the lottery, the winning ticket matched four white ball numbers in addition to the gold Megaball number. As a result of the player purchasing the additional option, their prize was increased from $10,000 to $40,000, according to the officials. The Megaplier number was 4, and the player’s award was quadrupled.
In accordance with the release, the probability of matching four white balls with the gold Megaball is one in nine hundred thirty-one thousand.
As per the administrators of the lottery, the winner has a period of one hundred eighty days to claim the prize.
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The winner will be able to maintain some degree of privacy, as South Carolina is one of eleven states that permit lottery winners to remain anonymous. The other states that fall into this category are Arizona, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, New Jersey, North Dakota, Ohio, Texas, and Virginia.
The people in charge of the lottery instructed the participants to “sign the back of your ticket and put it in a safe location until you are ready to come forward to claim the prize.”
Please visit sceducationlottery.com for comprehensive information regarding the process of claiming rewards.
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In the event that the winning ticket is turned in to lottery officials, the convenience store will be entitled to a commission compensation for selling the ticket.
The jackpot for the Mega Millions drawing that will take place on Tuesday night has increased to $944 million, and there was no winner of the grand prize drawing that took place last Friday.
The price of tickets is $2, although they may be higher if extra options are selected. It is estimated that the odds of winning the jackpot prize in Mega Millions are one in 302,575,350.
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