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Three Winning Mega Millions Tickets Sold, None in Minnesota
Winning tickets were sold in Maryland, Illinois and Kansas, forcing a three-way split of the $640 million jackpot.
Well, the jackpot worth $640 million will be split three ways after officials announced winning tickets were sold in Maryland, Illinois and Kansas. Sorry, Minnesota.
The winning numbers were 02-04-23-38-46, and the Mega Ball 23.
According to lottery officials, Americans spent nearly $1.5 billion for a chance to hit the jackpot, ballooning the prize to $640 million—the world's largest lottery payout of all-time. If just one winner had claimed the prize, the $462 million lump sum payout would come to around $347 million after federal tax withholding.
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The jackpot size blows the pants off the $229 million Powerball jackpot ticket sold at a in Lakeville last summer. .
The prize was so enormous that a single person could have purchased each of the 176 million number combinations, and still walked away with $171 million.
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