Lottery player hits $1.58B Mega Millions jackpot in Florida. Where was ticket sold?
A lottery player hit the jackpot in Florida — and now the location where the ticket was sold has been revealed.
The lucky winner bought the $1.58 billion ticket at a Publix grocery store in Neptune Beach, the Florida Lottery said, according to the Miami Herald.
The person is set to get richer after spending $2 on a ticket that matched all six numbers in the drawing on Tuesday, Aug. 8. The winning picks were: 13, 19, 20, 32, 33 and gold Mega Ball 14.
“Tuesday night’s jackpot win is expected to set a new record for game, surpassing the previous record of $1.537 billion,” Mega Millions wrote in a news release. “That big prize was won in South Carolina on October 23, 2018.”
The odds of hitting the jackpot in the Mega Millions game are more than 1 in 302 million.
Neptune Beach is in the Jacksonville area.
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This story was originally published August 9, 2023 at 7:53 AM with the headline "Lottery player hits $1.58B Mega Millions jackpot in Florida. Where was ticket sold?."
