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One ticket has won a $1.13 billion Mega Millions jackpot - the 5th largest in the game's history

One ticket has won a $1.13 billion Mega Millions jackpot - the 5th largest in the game's history

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Dalia Faheid
, CNN

(CNN) — A single ticket sold in New Jersey has won Tuesday’s estimated $1.13 billion Mega Millions jackpot – the fifth-largest prize in the history of the game, the lottery says.

Tuesday’s winning numbers were: 7, 11, 22, 29, 38 and Mega Ball 4.

Details about precisely where in New Jersey the winning ticket was sold weren’t immediately available. The holder could opt for the full jackpot in annual payments or take an estimated $537.5 million lump-sum payment, the lottery has said.

Thirteen other tickets won at least $1 million by matching the first five balls in Tuesday’s drawing, the lottery said, including three sold in New York, two in Georgia, two in Florida, and one each in California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio.

Tuesday’s jackpot win comes seven months after the largest-ever Mega Millions grand prize – $1.602 billion – was won by a ticket that was purchased in Neptune Beach, Florida, according to Mega Millions.

This is the first Mega Millions jackpot won since December 8, when a prize of $394 million was snagged by two players in California.

Lottery players will have another chance this week to win a massive payout, as Wednesday’s Powerball drawing offers an estimated $865 million jackpot – which would be the fifth-largest in that game’s history. A winner of Wednesday’s drawing could opt for the jackpot in annual payments or a lump-sum payment of an estimated $416.1 million – both before taxes, according to Powerball.

The Powerball jackpot was last won on January 1 by a ticket in Michigan with an estimated $842.4 million prize.

Thirty-six consecutive Powerball drawings have passed with no grand prize winner. The odds of winning any prize in a Powerball drawing are 1 in 24.9, and the odds of snagging the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million, according to the lottery.

CNN’s Elizabeth Wolfe contributed to this report.

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