The lucky winner popped out for some shopping at their local grocery store Kroger in Detroit, Michigan – and brought home a billion dollar (almost £731m) ticket. The $1 billion jackpot-winning Mega Millions ticket is the third-largest lottery prize in U.S. history.

The Mega Millions top prize had been growing since 15th September – which was the last time the jackpot was won. After a record run of 37 draws, the third-largest jackpot in the history of Mega Millions was won last Friday night! There was only a single ticket to match all six numbers drawn on 22nd January 2021 – the white balls 4, 26, 42, 50 and 60, plus the gold Mega Ball 24. It is the 18th Mega Millions jackpot won in Michigan over the years; the last one was a prize shared with Rhode Island on 13th October 2017. Michigan is one of the original founding members of Mega Millions.

In addition to the $1B jackpot-winning ticket, there were plenty of other big winners last Friday night as well, a total of 10 tickets matched the five white balls to win the game’s second prize, sold in North Carolina and Virginia. The other eight are worth $1 million – two each in Florida and New York, and one each in Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

The jackpot was last won at $120 million in Wisconsin on 15th September, and in this jackpot run there were almost 42.8 million winning tickets at all prize levels, including 70 second-tier winners of $1 million or more. Those million-dollar prizes were won in 24 different jurisdictions from coast to coast.

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That means the Powerball drawing on Saturday, 16th January 2021 will be worth a whopping $640 million with a cash option of $478.7 million. Those tickets were sold in California, Colorado, Georgia, Michigan, New York, Texas and Virginia. Two of those winners were sold in California, three in Michigan and two others in Texas. Only the player in Virginia also played the Power Play option which increased their winnings to an increased $2 million!

Prior to the draw, the jackpot increased from $550 million to $556 million and now again for Saturdays draw to $640 million. The US Powerball is offered in 44 States, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Players select five white numbers from (1 to 69) and one red ball (1 to 26). Teamed with the other US lotto Mega Millions drawing is tonight Friday, 15th  January with an estimated jackpot of $750 million.

The last Michigan player to win a Mega Millions or Powerball jackpot was Cristy Davis of Waterford who won $70 million playing Powerball in February. And whilst she was a lucky winner of such a big jackpot, it’s smart for players to check their tickets immediately as a winner worth $1 million sold in Hartland in 2019 went unclaimed and as the winner never came forward to claim the prize – The money instead went to the state’s School Aid Fund.

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Mr Cook stood by his word all these years later when he realised his Powerball ticket with the jackpot winning numbers.

Tom Cook & Joe Feeney, friends who live in the Menomonie area of Wisconsin with their partners, made the promise back in 1992, saying they would always split any lottery winnings with each other, whoever bought the ticket.

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