The sole ticket to a historic Mega Millions jackpot — $1.6 billion or a cash sum of almost $914 million — was sold in somewhere in South Carolina, the state’s Education Lottery announced early Wednesday.
The person, or persons, holding that ticket remain unknown.
The numbers for this week’s historic Mega Millions Jackpot were announced late Tuesday night: 28, 70, 5, 62, 65, with a Mega Ball of 5.
The odds of winning jackpot were 1 in 302,575,350, but that didn’t stop thousands, if not millions, from playing across the country.
Those slim chances didn’t seem to put a damper on the excitement for some folks, including Marissa Kagan, who waited in line at a store near Primm, Nevada.
“I’ve been waiting an hour and a half,” Kagan said. “Once you’ve made the trip from Vegas, you might as well just stay for the duration.”
“I never play, but we just kind of figured ‘why not?'” Kagan added, noting that if she wins, she said that she would buy a school and build some homeless shelters.
Christina Nagar, a Las Vegas resident in the same line, said she would “buy a few penthouses” as well as some “new cars, a bunch of sneakers.”
Andres Ojeda, also in line at the store, had less firm plans for the jackpot.
“I don’t know,” Ojeda said, “but I’d like to find out!”
