A single ticket sold in Texas took home the $810 million Mega Millions jackpot Tuesday night, marking the second-biggest prize for that lottery this year.
The winning numbers on 1, 2, 16, 24, 66 and 6 was stuck with a quick entry sold at a Murphy USA gas station and convenience store in Sugar Land, Texas, a suburb of Houston.
Tuesday’s winner can choose an annual annuity paid out over 30 years or claim a lump sum of $409.3 million.
The prize is the largest jackpot ever won by a Texas lottery player, according to Mega Millions officials. Overall, the Texas ticket is the seventh largest in Mega Millions history.
A grand prize of $1.602 billion bought in a supermarket in Neptune Beach, Florida in August 2023 remains. the largest purse in Mega Millions history.
The biggest Mega Millions prize this year came from a $1.128 billion winning ticket purchased at a Rite Aid in Neptune Township, NJ, in March.
A San Jose player shared a $648 million prize with a Georgia woman in 2013, marking the largest Mega Millions jackpot won by a Californian.
A ticket bought on Tuesday i unincorporated city of Floristonon the California-Nevada border near Truckee, matched five of six numbers and snagged a prize of $605,656. Other five-number winners came from Florida, New York and Washington and demanded $1 million.
California public schools quietly benefited from the lottery, taking home $66.8 million from sales related to this jackpot, according to California Lottery spokeswoman Carolyn Becker.
The jackpot grew since the previous win on June 4, rolling over 27 times. California residents contributed $167 million in sales to the jackpot, according to Becker, with roughly 40% kicked back into schools.
The game, which costs $2 for a single ticket, is played in 45 states along with the Washington, DC Drawings held on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Tuesday’s prize was just the third Mega Millions jackpot won this year.
By comparison, Friday’s Mega Million jackpot is estimated at $20 million.