4 Mega Millions tickets worth $1 million sold in New York
NEW YORK -- Four second-prize tickets, each worth $1 million, in the Jan. 13 Mega Millions drawing were sold in New York, the lottery said Saturday.
The winning tickets, which matched five numbers from Friday night's drawing, were sold in Long Island City, Manhattan, Newburgh and Plainview.
The winning numbers were: 30, 43, 45, 46, 61 and a Mega Ball of 14.
The owner of Mega News on East 57th Street and Second Avenue says this isn't the first time someone hit big in his store.
"This is the third time we've got a winner here, so first time, like $250,000, and the second time was like half a million dollars, and now $1 million," Syed Tahsin said.
One ticket purchased in Maine won the $1.35 billion jackpot, the fourth-largest lottery prize ever and the second-largest in Mega Millions history after the game went three months without a jackpot winner.
The ticket was sold at a gas station in Lebanon, Maine, about 45 miles southwest of Portland.
The owner of the gas station says he found out he sold a winner after getting a call Saturday morning, but he thought he was getting scammed.
"Six a.m. this morning, the caller ID showed an Augusta, Maine, telephone number alerting me that our store had sold the winning ticket for the $1.3 billion jackpot. The next thing I expected was him to ask me for a gift card because I thought for sure it was a scam," Fred Cotreau said.
This is the first-ever Mega Millions jackpot won in Maine.
If the winner chooses the cash option, they'll get an estimated $724 million.
The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are 1 in 302.6 million.
The jackpot for the next drawing on Tuesday resets to the starting value of $20 million.
