A lottery ticket has earned its buyer in Florida a $1.58-billion jackpot, equivalent to €1.44 billion, the US Mega Millions lottery announced on Tuesday.
This sum surpasses the previous record for the lottery, $1.537 billion, won in 2018, according to the company.
"After 31 winnerless draws, one lucky ticket holder in Florida will celebrate the summer of 2023 with a record jackpot, currently estimated at $1.58 billion," the lottery wrote in a statement.
According to ABC News, the amount would be the third-largest jackpot in US lottery history.
In November 2022, a player in California landed $2.04 billion in the Powerball lottery.
The chance of winning the Mega Millions jackpot is one in 303 million, smaller than the chance of being struck by lightning (one in a million), according to data from US health authorities.
The lucky winner, who has not been identified, can choose to cash in €783 million all at once or receive the entire winnings in annual payments spread over 30 years.
The ticket for this lottery, held in almost every US state, costs $2.
