There wasn't just one lucky winner, two tickets purchased in Texas won the $1 million drawing!
Numbers have been drawn for Friday's $1.28 billion Mega Millions jackpot, but there's still no word yet if someone claimed a winning ticket., officials confirmed to ABC News."Any additional information is pending as Mega Millions completes the balancing process among participating lotteries. Once complete, we will issue a release on the Mega Millions website.
The total prize is for winners who choose the annuity option, paid annually over 29 years. Most winners opt for the cash option, which for Friday night's drawing was an estimated $780.5 million.According to the Illinois Lottery, the store that sold the ticket is a pretty big winner, too; it will receive half a million dollars just for selling the ticket.
Even lottery officials may not know for a while who won because winners don't have to come forward straight away. And the winning ticket may have been bought by a group of people. Pratik Patel, the head of Family Wealth Strategies at BMO Family Office in Chicago, said the winner should work with a financial planner to map out their future.
"There are going to be people doing everything they can to figure out who the winner is," said Kim Kamin, who was a trusts and estates attorney for 17 years and now teaches estate planning at Northwestern University's law school. "There are going to be many eyes watching."
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