There are at least two unbelievably wealthy people in the Bronx and San Gabriel, CA after each picked Friday night's Mega Millions winning numbers -- 1, 17, 31, 37, 54 and the Mega Ball, 31. The jackpot was up to $333 million.
The two winning tickets are worth $166.5 million a piece.
"That's a third of a billion dollars," said Mega Millions spokeswoman Jennifer Givner. "It's the fourth-largest lottery payout in North American history", Givner told the New York Daily News.
Winners have one year to step forward and collect their payout. The New York winner elected to take the annual payout, instead of the lump sum, according to the NYTimes.
He will receive yearly payments of $6,410,250 over a 26-year-period, according to the paper. The California winner has 60 days from the time he claims the winning ticket to decide how he’ll collect his millions.
The largest single winner of a Mega Millions jackpot was $315 million to California man in 2005, according to the paper.
Mega Millions tickets are sold in Georgia, Illinois, California, Texas, Washington, Virginia, Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Maryland and Massachusetts. The odds of winning the jackpot are approximately one in 176 million.
The new Mega Millions jackpot is estimated at $12 million for Tuesday's drawing.
