$162 Million Lottery Winner

Someone in Long Island is having a quite a happy holiday, as they now have the winning ticket for a Mega Millions jackpot of no less than $162 million! The magic lottery number reached an amount of $162 million this week, and will go to a winner who bought theirticket in Suffolk County, NY. That ticket shows the winner is planning to go with the old Lump Sum option, which will give them the cash all at once but also means you get subsantially less total cash than if you got the yearly installments. That's the standard setup for the lottery, and experts say the lump sum could be better or worse depending on how well you do investing and managing your own money.

See below for the winning numbers. And if you're reading this, and didn't know until now that you were the winner, please remember who helped you out!

$162 Million Lottery Winner
philly.com

The winning ticket for the Mega Millions jackpot of $162 million was sold in a seaside hamlet on Long Island. New York State Lottery officials say the ticket was sold in Suffolk County, at a store in Rocky Point called Cards and Things. No one has yet claimed the prize from Tuesday night's drawing in the multistate lottery. The winning numbers were 3, 33, 35, 39, 45 and Mega Ball number 13...

$162 Million Lottery Winner