Licette Griffin of Greensboro recalled "buckling to the floor" after realizing she'd won a $1.16 million instant jackpot, the North Carolina Education Lottery said in a July 25 news release.

Are you tonight’s lucky winner? Grab your tickets and check your numbers. The Mega Millions lottery jackpot continues to rise after someone won the $344 million prize on March 25. Here are the winning numbers in Friday’s drawing:

The odds of matching all five numbers and the Mega Ball is 1 in 290,472,336, according to the Mega Millions Consortium. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 23. The Mega Millions game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The slot reporting threshold is governed by an IRS regulation, so the change will not go into effect until the agency updates its rules.

A lucky gambler walked away from a Las Vegas casino with a big jackpot prize. The player sat at a Dragon Cash slot machine at the South Point Hotel Casino & Spa, the casino said in a July 22 post on X,

Is today your lucky day? The numbers for the Mega Millions jackpot will be drawn at around 11 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

The player hit the jackpot after stopping at a convenience store in the mountain town of Asheville. The lucky ticket was sold at Fastrac Markets Inc, the N.C. Education Lottery wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

A $422,167 Jersey Cash 5 jackpot was hit on Thursday, July 24, on three separate tickets sold at a Union County shop.