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Mega Millions player wins $800 million jackpot with ticket bought at Texas gas station
A Texas Mega Millions player has won an estimated prize of $800 million, according to the lottery game.
The player, who has not been identified, was the first person to match all six numbers drawn since June. The winning ticket was sold at a Murphy USA convenience store and gas station in Sugar Land, Texas. The player chose a Quick Pick ticket, where a computer picks the numbers.
The winning numbers were white balls 1, 2, 16, 24 and 66, and the gold Mega Ball 6.
It’s just the third Mega Millions jackpot win of 2024. A New Jersey player won $1.128 billion in March, and an Illinois player took home $552 million in June.
The Texas player can take home either a lump cash sum of about $404.2 million, or collect a larger sum over several years. The Mega Millions game did not clarify how much the latter option would earn the winner.
This is the 15th Mega Millions jackpot won in Texas, according to the lottery game.
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The $800 million grand prize isn’t the only sum that was awarded. Four tickets matched the five white numbers drawn. Each of those players win the game’s $1 million second-tier prize. Each second-tier winner purchased their ticket in a different state, with winning tickets sold in California, Florida, New York and Washington.
Another 47 players took home the game’s third-tier prize for matching four white balls and the Mega Ball. Ten of those players had paid an extra $1 to add a Megaplier to their ticket, so they won $40,000. The remaining 37 players will each take home $10,000 each.
The next Mega Millions drawing will be on Friday, Sept. 13. The prize will reset to its current starting value of $20 million, the lottery said.
Friday the 13th may seem like an unlucky day, but seven Mega Millions jackpots have been won on the date, according to the lottery game. That includes a massive $1.348 billion prize won in Maine on Jan. 13, 2023.
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Yellowstone hiker burned when she falls into scalding water near Old Faithful, park officials say
Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. — A New Hampshire woman suffered severe burns on her leg after hiking off-trail in Yellowstone National Park and falling into scalding water in a thermal area near the Old Faithful geyser, park officials said.
The 60-year-old woman from Windsor, New Hampshire, along with her husband and their leashed dog were walking off a designated trail near the Mallard Lake Trailhead on Monday afternoon when she broke through a thin crust over the water and suffered second- and third-degree burns to her lower leg, park officials said. Her husband and the dog weren’t injured.
The woman was flown to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho for treatment.
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Park visitors are reminded to stay on boardwalks and trails in hydrothermal areas and exercise extreme caution. The ground in those areas is fragile and thin and there’s scalding water just below the surface, park officials said.
Pets are allowed in limited, developed areas of Yellowstone park but are prohibited on boardwalks, hiking trails, in the backcountry and in thermal areas.
The incident is under investigation. The woman’s name wasn’t made public.
This is the first known thermal injury in Yellowstone in 2024, park officials said in a statement. The park had recorded 3.5 million visitors through August this year.
Hot springs have injured and killed more people in Yellowstone National Park than any other natural feature, the National Park Service said. At least 22 people have died from hot spring-related injuries in and around the 3,471-square-mile national park since 1890, park officials have said.