{"id":54813,"date":"2025-11-15T19:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T19:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/54813\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T19:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T19:41:07","slug":"980m-mega-millions-ticket-sold-georgia-socal-empty-handed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/54813\/","title":{"rendered":"$980M Mega Millions ticket sold Georgia; SoCal empty-handed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG-20140710-01000-e1405028807944.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763235667_480_IMG-20140710-01000-e1405028807944-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Lottery tickets\" class=\"wp-image-6575\"  \/><\/a>California lottery ticket. (Photo by Alexander Nguyen\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, Southern Californians \u2014 the winning ticket wasn\u2019t sold here this time. A life-changing ticket sold in Georgia matched all six numbers in Friday night\u2019s multi-state Mega Millions drawing, hitting an estimated $980 million jackpot \u2014 the 14th-largest in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s numbers were 1, 8, 11, 12, 57, and the Mega number was 7. The drawing was the 40th since a ticket last matched all six numbers.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Mega Millions Consortium, the winner can receive the full $980 million in 30 graduated annual payments or choose a lump-sum payout of $452.2 million. Both options are subject to federal taxes.<\/p>\n<p>A ticket sold in Michigan matched five numbers but missed the Mega Ball and is worth $3 million.<\/p>\n<p>The odds of matching all five numbers plus the Mega Ball are 1 in 290,472,336. The overall chance of winning any prize is 1 in 23.<\/p>\n<p>This jackpot ranks as the eighth-largest since the game began in 1996 as The Big Game, later becoming Mega Millions in 2002. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Multi-State Lottery Association<\/a> notes that six Powerball jackpots have been larger.<\/p>\n<p>Mega Millions is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s jackpot will be $50 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014City News Service contributed to this report<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California lottery ticket. (Photo by Alexander Nguyen\/Times of San Diego) Sorry, Southern Californians \u2014 the winning ticket wasn\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[34241,24294,10979,22715,1047,20634,74,76,75,15193],"class_list":["post-54813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-980-million","tag-drawing","tag-georgia","tag-lottery","tag-mega-millions","tag-november-2025","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-socal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}