A winning Mega Millions jackpot ticket worth $31 million was purchased at a grocery store in Belchertown, Massachusetts. The store is located in Massachusetts.
The winning ticket for Tuesday’s drawing was purchased at the Stop & Shop located on George Hannum Road by a fortunate player.
The following combinations of numbers were selected as winners in the drawing: 33-41-47-50-62, and the Mega Ball was 20.
According to the official website of the Massachusetts State Lottery, the winner of this jackpot has the option to receive $16.3 million in cash rather than the full amount of the prize.
There is currently no information available regarding the winner’s identity.
The winning ticket must be redeemed at the headquarters of the Massachusetts State Lottery, which is located at 150 Mount Vernon Street in Dorchester, within a year of the drawing date.
As an incentive for selling the winning ticket, Stop and Shop will receive a bonus of $50,000.
Mavis Wanczyk, a resident of Chicopee, was the lucky winner of a $758.7 million Powerball jackpot in August of 2017. Wanczyk’s ticket was purchased at a Pride store in Chicopee by a hospital worker from the Mercy Medical Center. This was the largest lottery prize ever awarded in the state of Massachusetts.
The winning ticket from Wednesday’s Mega Millions drawing is the fourth largest jackpot ever won in the state of Massachusetts:
1. A transaction worth $31 million takes place in Belchertown on January 24, 2023
2. On October 16, 2012, a ticket worth $61 million was purchased in Hyannis and then split with another ticket that was purchased in California.
3. A ticket worth 32 million dollars was sold in Dorchester on August 19, 2011.
4. On July 2, 2004, a ticket worth 294 million dollars was sold in Lowell.
For the drawing that took place last night, the Megaplier, which is an option that players of Mega Millions have when they purchase their ticket and which, if they win, will increase the amount of money they receive, was set to 4. In addition, the drawing produced two winners of a lesser prize of one million dollars each with tickets that were purchased in the states of Florida and New Jersey.
The drawings for Mega Millions take place every Tuesday and Friday at 11 o’clock at night, and each Mega Millions ticket costs $2. Participants in the Mega Millions lottery are required to purchase a ticket for $2 that contains six numbers.
The first five numbers can be any value between one and seventy, and the Mega Ball can be any value between one and twenty-five. According to the Mega Millions website, there are nine different ways to win a prize in the lottery game. The person who wins the jackpot must match all six of their numbers in order to claim the jackpot prize.