The New Jersey lottery winner who came away with the $1.13B jackpot from Tuesday night’s drawing bought the life-changing Mega Millions ticket at ShopRite Liquor in Monmouth County, the lottery announced today.

The store is located on Route 66 in Neptune Township. A press conference is set to take place at the business at noon Wednesday.

The owner of the liquor store will be presented with a $30,000 bonus check for selling the winning ticket.
Under New Jersey law, lottery winners are allowed to remain anonymous and the prizes can be claimed up to a year after the drawing.

The first jackpot of 2024 was captured on Tuesday night, after 30 straight weeks without a Mega Millions winner. It is the eighth-largest prize in US lottery’s history.

The winning numbers were 7, 11, 22, 29, 38, and the gold Mega ball 4.

The newly minted billionaire can receive the $1.13 billion in annual installments over 30 years, or a one-time lump sum estimated at $537.5 million.

There has not been a major Mega Millions winner since Dec. 8, when two tickets in California matched the numbers for the estimated $395 million jackpot.

The last time a Mega Millions jackpot-winning ticket was sold in the Garden State was back on July 24, 2020.

The unidentified winner snapped up the $123 million ticket in Bayonne, according to the lottery’s website.
Before Tuesday’s $1.13 billion drawing, Richard Wahl, of Vernon, held the record for the largest Mega Millions lottery win in New Jersey’s history, capturing a $533 million prize on March 30, 2018.

Wahl’s windfall is now only the 11th-largest in the lottery’s history.

The odds of winning the Mega Millions are a startling 1 in 302,575,350.

Mega Millions is played in 45 states plus Washington, DC, and the US Virgin Islands.