CHICAGO (AP) — A solitary ticket purchased in a Chicago suburb conquer the odds and won a $1.337 billion Mega Millions jackpot.

In accordance to megamillions.com, there was a person jackpot-successful ticket in the attract Friday evening, and it was acquired at a Speedway fuel station and benefit keep in Des Plaines.

The successful numbers were being: 13-36-45-57-67, Mega Ball: 14.

“We are thrilled to have witnessed 1 of the major jackpot wins in Mega Millions history,” Ohio Lottery Director Pat McDonald, the recent Guide Director for the Mega Millions Consortium, explained in a assertion on the lottery’s web-site. “We’re keen to find out who won and glance ahead to congratulating the winner before long!”

The jackpot was the nation’s third-premier lottery prize. It grew so huge since no 1 had matched the game’s 6 picked quantities considering that April 15. That is 29 consecutive draws without having a jackpot winner.

Lottery officials had believed the winning just take at $1.28 billion, but revised the quantity up to $1.337 billion on Saturday.

The complete prize is for winners who pick out the annuity selection, paid on a yearly basis more than 29 many years. Most winners opt for the dollars option, which for Friday night’s drawing was an believed $780.5 million.

The odds of profitable the jackpot are 1 in 302.5 million.

In accordance to the Illinois Lottery, the shop that offered the ticket is a quite big winner, far too it will receive 50 % a million bucks just for offering the ticket. A clerk at the Speedway keep who answered the phone but declined to give his identify explained the keep experienced not been formally notified that it bought the profitable ticket and that he acquired about it from reporters calling for comment.

Mega Thousands and thousands is played in 45 states as perfectly as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The recreation is coordinated by state lotteries.

Illinois is amid the states the place winners of more than $250,000 can choose to not expose their names and Illinois Lottery spokeswoman Emilia Mazur claimed the broad bulk of those people winners do just that.

Even lottery officers might not know for a…