2 second-place Mega tickets sold on LI
Better hold on to your day job.
No New Yorker won the record $640-million Mega Millions jackpot, lottery officials said Saturday.
Two businesses on Long Island sold second-place winning tickets worth a quarter-million dollars apiece. Both of them picked the first five numbers in the drawing Friday night, according to Carolyn Hapeman of the New York Lottery.
One ticket was sold at Brush Hollow Deli on Brush Hollow Road in Westbury; the other was from a 7-Eleven on Route 112 in Medford, Hapeman said.
As for the massive jackpot -- dubbed the world's largest -- three winning tickets that will split it were sold in Maryland, Illinois and Kansas, officials said.
None of the winners stepped forward Saturday.
All told, Americans spent nearly $1.5 billion for a chance to become wealthy almost beyond imagination.
Illinois' winner used a quick pick -- an automatically generated set of digits -- to select the winning numbers at a convenience store in the small town of Red Bud, in the southern part of the state, Illinois Lottery spokesman Mike Lang said.
"It's just unbelievable. Everyone is wanting to know who it is," said Denise Metzger, manager of the Motomart where Illinois' winning ticket was sold.
"All day yesterday I was selling tickets and I was hoping someone from Red Bud would win," Metzger said. "Never in my wildest dreams did I think this. I'm just tickled pink."
The winning numbers also sold at a 7-Eleven in Milford Mill, Md., north of Baltimore. Kansas lottery officials have only said that the winning ticket was purchased in the northeastern part of the state.
The lucky numbers were 2, 4, 23, 38, 46 and Mega Ball 23. Each winning ticket was expected to be worth more than $213 million before taxes.
With AP
FRIDAY'S MEGA MILLIONS DRAWING
Number of winners: 3
What each wins: An estimated $213 million before taxes
Second-place winning tickets sold: 161
Second-place tickets sold in NYS: 17
Second-place tickets sold on LI: 2
What a second-place ticket pays: $250,000
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