The three-month-old lottery in the U.S. hit 1.8 trillion won.

The owner of the $1.22 billion (about 1.8 trillion won) accumulated for three months has been decided.

On the 27th local time, Mega Millions, one of the representative lottery tickets in the United States, said the first winner of the lottery was decided.

The winner has not been identified yet.

Mega Millions' first prize is paid in the form of a pension over 29 years.

However, most winners prefer to receive a lump sum payment, and if the first winner chooses to receive a lump sum payment, the prize money will be reduced to $549.7 million (about KRW 811.4 billion).

Mega Millions is a lottery in which you select five of the numbers from 1 to 70 and then find one Mega Ball number from 1 to 25 numbers again.

The probability of winning the first prize is only 1 in 302.6 million.

It is also much lower compared to the probability of winning the first place in the Korean Lotto, which is 8,145,60th.

It is because of this low probability that the first-place winner came out three months after the first-place winner came out on September 10.

Mega Millions' all-time top prize money was $1.6 billion (about W2.36 trillion) from Florida in August last year.

The Powerball, which divides Mega Millions and the U.S. lottery market, also recorded $2.04 billion (about 3 trillion won) in 2022.

Powerball is a lottery in which you guess a total of six numbers, including five numbers from 1 to 69 and one "Power Ball" number from 1 to 26.

The odds of winning the first prize in this lottery are 1 in 292.2 million.