Mega Millions player wins $800 million jackpot: drawing, results, ticket numbers

Everything is bigger in Texas – even the jackpots!

A Mega Millions ticket holder won the $800 million jackpot at a gas station outside Houston on Tuesday, ending a streak of more than 20 drawings without a jackpot winner.

The winning numbers were 1, 2, 16, 24, 66 and the golden mega ball 6.

According to the state lottery, the ticket was purchased at the Murphy USA 8848 gas station on Highway 90A in Sugar Land, Texas.

The company, which will receive $1 million for selling the jackpot-winning ticket, is located across the street from Constellation Field, home of the Sugar Land Space Cowboys, the Triple-A affiliate team of the Houston Astros, and 21 miles southwest of downtown Houston.

It is the 15th time a Mega Millions jackpot ticket has been sold in Texas and the first since October 6, 2023, when Blue Yucca Trust won the $361 million prize.

The odds of winning Mega Millions are an astronomical 1 in 302,575,350.

The lucky winner can claim the annual payouts of $800 million or opt for the one-time cash payout of $404.2 million.

Winners of prizes over $1 million in Texas may choose to remain anonymous under state law.

Four other lucky players – from New York, California, Florida and Washington State – matched the five white balls and won a $1 million prize.

The ticket holder in New York bought the lucky ticket at a Gulf Express gas station in New Windsor, 15 miles north of West Point.

Tuesday’s winner marks the third time the Mega Millions top prize has been won in 2024, following the $1.13 billion prize on March 26 and the $552 million prize on June 4.

The next drawing – on Friday the 13th – will again give away $20 million.

The largest Mega Millions jackpot ever won, worth $1.62 billion, was sold at a Publix supermarket in Neptune Beach, Florida in August 2023.

The historic ticket was collected by Saltines Holdings LLC, which elected to make a one-time lump sum payment of $794,248,882.00.