The winner of the fifth-largest jackpot in Mega Tens of millions historical past has come ahead to say their prize — 9 months after the fortunate numbers have been drawn.
The unidentified victor — who will stay nameless — has submitted the golden ticket price $1.128 billion to begin the gathering course of, NBC New York mentioned.
The Monmouth County ShopRite in Neptune, New Jersey, offered the massive winner that matched lotto numbers 7, 11, 22, 29 and 38 — in addition to the Gold Mega Ball quantity 4 and multiplier variety of 2, the outlet mentioned.
The drawing was held on March 26.
A state legislation permits the winner to remain anonymous so long as they like — though the participant should show their id to lotto officers.
The winner — who manually selected the numbers themselves — elected to take house the pre-tax money worth of greater than $537 million, in keeping with NJ.com.
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