Beaver County store sold $1M-winning Mega Millions Lottery ticket

CENTER TWP. ― A Beaver County gas station and convenience store has sold a winning Mega Millions lottery ticket worth $1 million for the Tuesday, Dec. 24, drawing.

With no jackpot winner for the Tuesday drawing, the jackpot rolled to an estimated annuity value of $1.15 billion, or $516.1 million cash, for the next drawing on Friday.

The $1 million-winning ticket matched all five white balls drawn, 11-14-38-45-46, but not the yellow Mega Ball 3.

Sunoco, 156 Pleasant Drive, Center Township, will receive a $5,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket.

Winners are not known until prizes are claimed and tickets are validated. Pennsylvania Lottery Mega Millions winners have one year from the drawing date to claim prizes. Winning tickets purchased at a Lottery retailer should immediately be signed on the back. Online winnings automatically appear in a player’s account after the claim has been processed. Players may visit palottery.com for more information.

More than 237,200 other PA Lottery Mega Millions tickets won prizes of various amounts in the drawing, including more than 42,600 tickets purchased with Megaplier. Players should check every ticket, every time.

The jackpot has been rolling since it was last won on Sept. 10, when a single ticket in Texas won a grand prize of $810 million. If the jackpot is won at $1.15 billion, it will be the fifth-largest prize in the history of the game.

In Pennsylvania, this recent jackpot run has generated more than $60 million in sales, creating a profit of more than $24 million to benefit older Pennsylvanians.

The current Mega Millions record jackpot is $1.602 billion, with the winning ticket sold in Florida on Aug. 8, 2023. The last time a Mega Millions jackpot was won in Pennsylvania was May 21, 2021.

Mega Millions is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Visit palottery.com for details on how to play.

Pennsylvania Lottery players have options to purchase their Mega Millions tickets online or by visiting a retailer. Players can find lottery-selling locations closest to them by visiting the Find a Retailer section of the Lottery’s website.

The Pennsylvania Lottery remains the only state lottery to direct all proceeds to programs that benefit older residents. Since ticket sales began in 1972, it has contributed more than $36.2 billion to fund property tax and rent rebates, transportation, care services, prescription assistance, and local services including senior centers and meals. The Pennsylvania Lottery operates as a bureau within the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue. Players must be 18 or older.

This article originally appeared on Beaver County Times: $1M-winning Mega Millions Lottery ticket sold in Center Twp.

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