The Sunshine State has a major reason to celebrate this summer.
A Mega Millions player in Florida won Tuesday night’s estimated $800 million jackpot, the biggest prize of the year and the tenth-largest jackpot in the lottery game’s history.
The winning Mega Millions numbers were 34, 48, 49, 59, 70, with the gold Mega Ball 12.
Lottery officials did not immediately disclose where in Florida the jackpot-winning ticket was sold.
The winner, who had not yet been identified, can take the full $800 million prize through annual payments or choose a one-time cash option worth $344.2 million before taxes.
If the player selects the lump-sum payment, a common choice among jackpot winners, mandatory federal withholding of 24% would reduce the cash prize to an estimated $261.6 million.
The drawing also produced two big second-tier winners, with both tickets matching all five white balls to claim Match 5 prizes.
One ticket worth $3 million was sold at the Corner Market in Buffalo, New York, while another winning ticket valued at $5 million was purchased in Illinois.
The $800 million prize is the tenth largest in Mega Millions history, surpassing the $656 million jackpot shared by three winners from Illinois, Kansas and Maryland in March 2012.
It is the third time the game’s grand prize was clinched in 2026, ending a 38-drawing drought, and the first since March 17, when The Happy Trails Trust struck gold and won the $60 million prize in Van Wert, Ohio.
An anonymous online player in Illinois won the $536 million grand prize a week earlier on March 10. Both winners have chosen the cash sum option, earning them $27.1 million and $245.6 million, respectively.
Florida has now won six Mega Millions grand prizes, its last in August 2023 when two winning tickets were sold in a span of three drawings.
The first, on August 8, holds the record for the largest Mega Millions jackpot in history, when Saltines Holdings, LLC, in Neptune Beach, Florida, claimed the $1.62 billion prize.
The second drawing, on August 15, matched the numbers for the $39 million pot but went unclaimed, according to the state lottery.
Lottery players who fell short of cashing in on the grand prize Tuesday night have another shot Wednesday with Powerball’s estimated $663 million drawing.
