Someone In DC Has Just Won $1 Million: Report

WASHINGTON, DC -- A $1 million Mega Millions ticket was sold in the District on Tuesday, according to a report.

WTOP reports that three $1 million tickets were sold in the area: two in Virginia and one in D.C. The Virginia tickets were purchased in Dale City and in a town near Richmond.

A total of 36 of the second-prize tickets were won, along with the massive $1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot.

The winning numbers of the drawing on Tuesday were 5, 28, 62, 65,70, and Mega Ball 5.

There were also more than 15 million winning tickets of varying amounts.

A Mega Millions lottery ticket sold somewhere in South Carolina matched all five numbers and the Mega Ball, entitling whoever purchased it to the record jackpot estimated at $1.6 billion, lottery officials said. The winning numbers: 5, 28, 62, 65, 70, and the Mega Ball was 5.

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 still have enormously slim odds at winning Wednesday night’s $620 million Powerball jackpot. Alternatively, you can buy tickets for Friday's Mega Millions drawing, which will be reset at a cool $40 million.

Additional reporting by Patch editor Daniel Hampton

NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 23: A man walks past a newsstand with advertisements for the Mega Millions lottery, 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)