$421-Million Jackpot Winning Mega Millions Ticket Sold At California Gas Station

The lucky $421-million jackpot-winning Mega Millions lottery ticket was reportedly sold at a gas station in Woodland Hills ahead of last Friday's much-anticipated mammoth draw.

The Mega Millions lottery ticket that won the jackpot for Friday, Jan. 28 night's drawing was reportedly sold at a Chevron gas station located in the 6000 block of Topanga Canyon Boulevard in California, ABC7 Eyewitness News noted.

The winning digits drawn were 3, 16, 25, 44, 55, and the Mega number 13. The lucky ticket-holder matched all five digits that came up on Mega Millions' Friday night drawing to clinch the massive $421-million top prize.

Meanwhile, four tickets also matched the five white balls drawn to win the game's second-tier prize of $1 million each.

One winning ticket, sold in Ohio, had included the optional Megaplier 3X to take home a prize of $3 million. Meanwhile, the other three Match 5 winning tickets, worth $1 million each, were sold in Mississippi, New York, and Texas.

The jackpot had been rolling since an Arizona family matched all six numbers in the drawing to claim a $108-million prize on Oct. 22, 2021. More than 16.2 million in prizes, including 39 second-tier prizes of $1 million or more, were won at all levels in this 28-drawing jackpot run.

The next Mega Millions drawing is scheduled for late Tuesday, Feb. 1, with the jackpot to reset to its starting value of $20 million.

A Mega Millions ticket costs $2 per stub and is drawn twice weekly on Tuesdays and Fridays at 11 p.m.

Mega Millions lottery players choose six numbers from two separate pools of numbers: five different numbers from 1 to 70 and one number from 1 to 25. In order to win the jackpot, a player has to match all these six numbers with the digits that come up in the drawing.

The largest Mega Millions jackpot in history stood at an unbelievable $1.537 billion and was won in South Carolina on Oct. 23, 2018.

In a similar but unrelated incident, an Ohio player reportedly won a $1-million lottery prize from Friday night's Mega Millions drawing, Cincinnati Enquirer reported.

The winning ticket, sold in Ohio, matched the five white balls drawn. However, since the player had included the optional Megaplier, which was 3X for Friday night, he took home a total prize of $3 million.

Adding a Megaplier costs an additional $1 per play. From a pool of 15 balls where five balls are marked with "2X," three balls with "4X" and one ball with "5X," the Megaplier is drawn before every Mega Millions drawing.