The world’s biggest and most exciting lottery has been won by a single ticket belonging to a South Carolina resident. The jackpot was finally won last night on Tuesday 24th October 2018 by one lucky winner.This is truly historic and life changing event. The numbers drawn Tuesday night were 5, 28, 62, 65 and 70, and the Mega Ball was 5. Just one person matched all 6 numbers including the Mega Ball to win the jackpot.The Mega Millions office stated:“ A whopping 36 tickets nationwide matched five of the six numbers for second-prize tickets.”Lottery winners have two options available to them:-Option 1: Take $878 million in one go.Option Two: To be paid in annuities over 29 years of $1.537 billion over, which is approximately $53 million a year.Another winner here is the US Tax office, who will be collecting a quarter of the winnings.
Animinity
Here’s an interesting point, we may never know who won the Mega Millions jackpot. There are animinty laws in seven US states and South Carolina is one of them. Which is good news for the winner, I think their privacy and safely should be paramount. This jackpot has created alot of excitement and attention for around the world. I hope the animosity would be given across the remaining states for future winners. This shouldn’t be public knowledge and has no legitimate interest to the public. Overall, it’s nice to know, but honestly, we don’t need to know.
How did the Mega Millions get so big?
The Jackpot hasn’t been won since July 2018, so it’s just been building and build for months. The thing with jackpots is that the bigger they get, the bigger they become and at a rapid pace.Once jackpots get past a certain point, people just jump in. Even people who don’t usually gamble will buy a lottery ticket, it’s just so appealing. For online jackpots, it’s usually for the £10 million point things get crazy and for the mega millions from about $500 million a snowball effect begins to happen.
History of Lottery jackpots
This epic jackpot amount just fell short of the collosal record breaking Powerball jackpot win in January 2016 of 1.586 billion. But that lottery amount was split between three winners, whereas the current jackpot goes to just one lucky winner.In terms of the Mega Millions jackpot, this $1.537 Billion jackpot smashes the previous record out of the water, which was $656 million in March 2012.Gordon Medenica, lead director of the Mega Millions group said:“This is truly a historic occasion. We’re so happy for the winner, and we know the South Carolina Education Lottery can’t wait to meet the lucky ticket holder.”
How rich is the latest Mega Millions winner?
This person is currently the luckiest person in the world but just how rich are they compared to others?If we work on the basis that they are worth $1.537 Billion then…The Mega Millions Jackpot winner is richer than all these people:Justin Bieber $265 MillionRihanna $210 MillionTaylor SwiftBeyonce $450 MillionJay Z $900 MillionJK Rowling £1 BillionPaul McCartney $1.2 BillionDrake $100 MillionKim Kardashian $350Kylie Jenner $900 MillionTom Hanks $350 MillionMariah Carey $550 MillionBono $700 MillionCeline Dion $800 MillionDr Dre $800 MillionBut not as rich as:Bill Gates $95.5 BillionJames Dyson $9 BillionRichard Branson $7 BillionOprah Winfrey $3.2 BillionWhat would you do with $1.537 Billion Mega Millions jackpot if you won it?