Check Your Tickets! $1 Million Lottery Ticket Sold In Wisconsin

Someone in Wisconsin has found themselves some serious holiday luck.

A $1 million winning lottery ticket was sold in Wisconsin and you might have it. This ticket matched the 5 white numbers during a recent Mega Millions drawing at the beginning of December. If you bought a Mega Millions ticket for the drawing back on December 3rd, you might want to look harder for that ticket because you might be a millionaire.

$1 Million Lottery Ticket Sold In Milwaukee

Officials with the Wisconsin Lottery announced that someone in Milwaukee is officially a millionaire.

A winning $1,000,000 Mega Millions ticket was sold at El Rey Food Mart on 1320 W. Burnham for the Tuesday, December 3 drawing. The winning ticket matched five of five numbers (52-60-61-66-67) but not the Mega Ball (23). Wisconsin Lottery retailers who sell winning tickets over $599 receive a two percent Retailer Performance Program Winning Ticket Incentive, up to $100,000.

In the United States, only three Mega Millions tickets matched five numbers for the Tuesday drawing. Two in Ohio and one in Wisconsin.

Since the current Mega Millions jackpot run started, which began on the most recent Friday the 13th (September 13), there have been 42 winning tickets sold for at least $1 million or more.

The estimated Mega Millions jackpot for the Friday, December 13th drawing is $670 million making it the eighth largest jackpot in Mega Millions history. In 2024, the Mega Millions jackpot has been won three times, most recently in Texas where an $810 million winning ticket was sold.

The last Mega Millions jackpot won on a Friday the 13th was on January 13, 2023, when a giant $1.348 billion prize was won in Maine. That is still the third-largest jackpot in the game’s history.

The odds of winning a $1,000,000 Mega Millions prize are 1:12,607,307. The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are 1:302,575,350.