Winning Mega Millions Ticket Sold In Ohio

POSTED: 5:18 pm EDT May 17, 2008

UPDATED: 6:46 pm EDT May 17, 2008

ATLANTA -- A lucky lottery player who stopped into a suburban Cincinnati liquor store has a Mega Millions ticket worth $196 million.

Lottery spokeswoman Marie Kilbane said Friday night that the ticket for the drawing was bought from Main Street Wine & Spirits in Amelia in southwest Ohio. The entire town is talking about the winning ticket, NewsChannel5 reported.

Lottery officials in Georgia said just one ticket won the jackpot. Another 17 players who matched five numbers but not the Mega Ball number will receive second place prizes of $250,000 each.

Another 69 players matched four numbers, plus the Mega Ball number -- good for third prizes of $10,000 each.

It's the first Mega Millions winning ticket to be sold in Ohio since Dec. 1, 2006, when a winning ticket was bought in Columbus.

The owners of the store that sold the ticket were given a checkl for $100,000 on Saturday.

The winning numbers for Friday night's drawing were 6, 11, 39, 46 and 47. The Mega Ball number was 26.