$3M second-prize Mega Millions ticket sold at NoFo Beer and Smoke in Mattituck, officials say
New York Lottery Mega Millions ticket forms at a Conoco gas station in Commack in September 2024. Credit: Morgan Campbell
A winning second-prize ticket was sold in Mattituck for the Nov. 11 drawing of Mega Millions, the New York Lottery announced on Wednesday
No grand prize-winning tickets were sold in the $900 million drawing, whose winning numbers were 10, 13, 40, 42, 46 and the Mega ball 1. The following draw, a single winning jackpot ticket, was sold in Georgia in what then was a $980 million drawing with a cash value of $452.2 million.
The second-place consolation prize in Mega Millions is $1 million — and is affected by a built-in multiplier that makes the ticket worth $2 million, $3 million, $4 million, $5 million or $10 million. The ticket sold at NoFo Beer and Smoke at 55 Middle Rd. in Mattituck carried a 3x multiplier, making it worth $3 million.
Second-place winning tickets match all five field numbers drawn from the field of 70 white draw balls, but fail to match the yellow Mega ball drawn from a separate field of 24. Odds of matching the five numbers — but, not the Mega ball — are 1 in 12,629,232, according to the New York Lottery.
Drawings are held Tuesdays and Fridays at 11 p.m.
To date no one has come forward to claim the prize tied to the ticket sold in Mattituck.
NoFo manager Nil Patel told Newsday the store, which is family-owned and operated, learned of the $3 million winner the morning after the drawing — but when asked if any of his customers had come in to share news they'd won, he said: "Not yet."
"There's still someone out there with 3 million in their pocket," he said. Then, laughing, added: "Or, 1 million-something after taxes."
Patel said the store had previously sold winning tickets in various lottery drawings, but said the largest Mega winning prize ticket they'd sold was a third-prize ticket — matching four field numbers and the Mega number — worth $10,000.
"We had winners before with Mega," he said. "But never like this."
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