Mega Millions $162M is Won by Someone in New York

By Daily News Editor
Published: December 23, 2009


One ticket matched all six numbers in Mega Millions drawing Tuesday night to win an estimated $162 million jackpot, according to the Mega Millions website.
The winning ticket was purchased in Suffolk County, New York. The winner wasn’t identified.

The winning Mega Millions lottery numbers drawn Tuesday were: 3, 33, 35, 39, 45 with the Mega Ball, 13.

The grand prize had been steadily growing since Nov. 10 when two tickets matched all six numbers. Those tickets, which split the estimated $77 million jackpot, were bought in South San Francisco, Calif., and Union County.

Mega Millions is a consortium of 12 member state lotteries. The largest payout so far has been a $390 million jackpot shared by a New Jersey couple from Cape May County and a truck driver in Georgia in 2007.

In March, 10 co-workers from the information technology department of Chubb Insurance in White House station split a $140 million jackpot.

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