{"id":118279,"date":"2018-04-14T10:22:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T08:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=118279"},"modified":"2020-04-14T11:27:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T09:27:35","slug":"one-winning-ticket-record-1-6-bln-us-lotto-jackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/04\/14\/one-winning-ticket-record-1-6-bln-us-lotto-jackpot\/","title":{"rendered":"One winning ticket in record $1.6 bln US lotto jackpot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A single ticket holder in South Carolina will claim that bounty, Mega Millions said on its website.<\/p>\n<p>The six winning numbers drawn on Tuesday night were 5, 28, 62, 65, 70 and 5 again as the special Mega Ball.<\/p>\n<p>The record jackpot had set off a lottery frenzy across America, with people lining up at convenience stores, supermarkets and liquor stores to buy a two dollar ticket that gave them a roughly one in 300 million chance of winning. This type of frenzy is something lottery players on <span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;uk 49's&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:2,&quot;4&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:65535}}\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lotto.africa.com\/uk-49s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">uk 49&#8217;s<\/a> have witnessed before.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The winner can take $913 million in a lump sum cash payment or the whole pile in annuities over 29 years.<\/p>\n<p>The jackpot got so big because no one had won since July, when a group of office workers in California shared $543 million.<\/p>\n<p>Until now the US record jackpot was $1.586 billion for a different lottery, called Powerball, in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>It was split three ways by ticket holders in California, Florida and Tennessee. Each took home $528.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2018 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A single winning ticket has been identified in the record-setting $1.6 billion Mega Millions lottery jackpot, lottery officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7917,"featured_media":118280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":".","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19917,2],"tags":[24419,24420,24418],"class_list":["post-118279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news-headlines","tag-lottery","tag-lottery-wins","tag-lotto"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Business"},"tag_labels":["lottery","lottery wins","lotto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}