One lucky winner just won $530 Million!

2019-06-08

The Mega Millions jackpot of $530 million has been won. The winning ticket was sold in California. This jackpot was the 7th largest in the history of the Mega Millions lottery. In addition to the jackpot prize, there were 1,711,340 other winning tickets as well. So don’t throw away your ticket yet, make sure you check it, you may still have won something. Three tickets won the second prize of $1million. Forty-Eight tickets won the third prize of $10,000, 5 of those actually won $30,000 for matching the megaplier as well.

There have been 3 other large jackpot wins this year already. In January a jackpot of $437 million was won and in March a jackpot of $273 million was won.

If you didn’t win, don’t worry though. Another chance for a high jackpot will be along soon. The company that runs the Mega Millions lottery has been making tweaks over the last few years to help jackpots grow faster and to larger amounts. They have done this through a combination of changing the odds of the lottery and increasing the price. It probably won’t be long before we see the prizes rising up into the 100’s of millions of dollars again.