Mega Millions Results For 10/23/18; 1 Ticket Hits $1.6B Jackpot

One winning ticket was sold for Tuesday night's record-breaking $1.6 billion jackpot in the multi-state lottery game Mega Millions. South Carolina lottery officials say a jackpot-winning ticket was sold in their state.

The winning numbers were: 5, 28, 62, 65, 70 and Mega Ball 5.

The jackpot had rolled over without a winner a total of 24 times. The last time someone hit the Mega jackpot: way back on July 24.

Since then, Mega Millions sales in New York alone have totaled $184.5 million. The game is played in 44 states. Hourly sales approaching $3 million or more were expected in New York in the final hours leading up to Tuesday night's drawing, the New York Lottery said.

“The world is watching us and the other 45 lottery jurisdictions offering the Mega Millions product,” said Ronald Ochrym, New York Gaming Commission's acting executive director. “This is a chance to shine a spotlight on the pride New York takes in its lottery and all the good our lottery does for our schools, small business owners and of course, our players.”

Four people who bought Mega Millions tickets in New York for last Friday night's drawing won the $1 million second-prize.

The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350. To put that in perspective, your odds of being struck by lightning are 302 times higher than winning the jackpot. The overall chances of winning any prize are 1 in 24. Despite those astronomical odds, there was a good chance that someone finally won the jackpot Tuesday night.

Lottery officials say they expected about 75 percent of all the number combinations to have been purchased by the time the winning numbers were drawn, USA Today reported.

Since the game's start in 2002, there have been 36 Mega Millions jackpot winners in New York. Check them out below.

1. August 27, 2002 - $108 million – Operations 11 Group
2. November 19, 2002 - $16 million – Lucky 16 Group
3. December 24, 2002 - $68 million – Unclaimed, purchased in Brooklyn
4. February 11, 2003 - $128 million – Phin Suy of Brooklyn
5. April 25, 2003 - $46 million – Unclaimed, purchased in Brooklyn
6. July 11, 2003 - $34 million – Henrietta Henderson of Uniondale
7. May 7, 2004 - $67 million – The Penello Family of Rockaway Beach
8. July 27, 2004 - $10 million – The Zielinski Family of Staten Island
9. November 19, 2004 - $149 million – Juan Rodriguez of Richmond Hills
10. August 1, 2006 – $31 million – Unclaimed, purchased in Astoria
11. September 19, 2006 - $12 million – Jose Santiago Morales Sanchez of the Bronx
12. April 6, 2007 - $105 million – Gilberto Bueno of Queens
13. November 2, 2007 - $75 Million – W.J. Albertson of Mahopac Falls
14. May 23, 2008 - $17 Million (50% share) – Edward & Ellen Hopper of Tompkins Cove
15. January 13, 2009 - $22 Million – Janet Alnwick of Merrick
16. March 13, 2009 - $27 Million – Isabel A. Zelaya of Wyandanch
17. May 29, 2009 - $36 Million – Silverbush Family of Syracuse
18. July 7, 2009 - $133 Million – Aubrey Boyce of Kew Gardens
19. August 28, 2009 - $336 Million (50% share) – James Groves of the Bronx
20. December 22, 2009 - $165 Million – The Morrisons of Suffolk County
21. May 25, 2010 - $64 million – The Shammas Family of Brooklyn
22. June 22, 2010 - $26 million – F. Hands, R. Edwards, and D. Tedford of Syracuse
23. September 17, 2010 - $54 million – Garina Fearon of Brooklyn
24. March 25, 2011 - $319 million – Hilton, Peck, Barth, Baldwin, Sussman, Kuty, and Mahar of Albany
25. April 15, 2011 - $71 million – The Gillen Family of Staten Island
26. December 27, 2011 - $208 million – Daniel Bruckner of San Jose, CA
27. July 3, 2012 - $85 million – Jin Ok Choi of Staten Island
28. September 18, 2012 - $14 million – Christopher Manzi of Morganville, NJ
29. November 2, 2012 - $33 million – Philip Cimino of Garden City
30. March 25, 2014 - $20 million – Cameron Finney of Mastic
31. November 4, 2014 - $326 million – Harold Diamond of Middletown
32. February 27, 2015 - $126 million – Tammy Pratt of New York, NY
33. March 24, 2015 - $58 million - The Lucky 16 Trust of West, NY
34. September 11, 2015 - $106 million – Lopez Family and Friends, Yonkers
35. January 8, 2016 - $169 million – Nancy Viola of Staten Island
36. September 22, 2017 - $105 million – Wayne Harris of Homer, NY