Winning Lottery Ticket Sold In Reston: Report

RESTON, VA -- If you bought a lottery ticket at a 7-Eleven in Reston recently, you'd better take a close look at it if you haven't already.

WRIC reports that a $30,000 Megaplier winner was sold at the 7-Eleven at 11854 Sunrise Valley Drive.

The ticket was one of 451,000 Mega Millions tickets purchased in Virginia that won prizes in the drawing on Tuesday night. Most were small, but the drawing did yield two $1 million winners in Virginia, in addition to the $30,000 winner in Reston. There were also a dozen $10,000 winners in the state.

The jackpot numbers were: 28, 70, 5, 62, 65, with a Mega Ball of 5. Someone in South Carolina won the $1.537 billion Mega Millions jackpot during the drawing.

The name and hometown of the winner aren't immediately known, and it could stay that way, USA Today reported. South Carolina is among several states where winners can remain anonymous.

"The moment we've been waiting for finally arrived, and we couldn't be more excited," Gordon Medenica, director of the Mega Millions Group and head of Maryland Lottery and Gaming, said in a statement Wednesday morning. "This is truly a historic occasion."

In addition to the jackpot winner, the sales frenzy produced a whopping 36 second prize $1 million tickets – each matching the five white balls drawn Tuesday night. Eight were in California, four each in Florida and New York, two each in Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey and Virginia, and one each in Arizona, the District of Columbia, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin.

If you were one of the approximately 7.6 billion people who didn't win the Mega Millions jackpot, don't fret — you can buy tickets for Friday's Mega Millions drawing, which will be reset at a cool $40 million.

Mega Millions tickets are sold in 44 states across the country.

Tuesday's jackpot was the highest in U.S. lottery history, with an estimated cash payout of $904.9 million. The odds of winning —302 million-to-1 odds — are worse than those of getting hit by lightning or being crushed by a meteor.

But that didn't stop Tuesday night's drawing from generating a frenzy nationwide as people dreamed of becoming a billionaire overnight. A general store in Whitman, Massachusetts — which has sold three $1 million tickets in the past — raked in $1,500 in lottery sales in just an hour. Most people shelled out about $20, though some played up to $300 worth. Some of them traveled 40 minutes to buy their tickets.

Additional reporting by Patch editor Daniel Hampton

NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 23: Mega Millions lottery tickets sit inside a convenience store in Lower Manhattan, October 23, 2018 in New York City. The $1.6 billion Mega Millions prize to be drawn Tuesday night is set to be the largest lottery prize in U.S. history. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)