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It's possible the world will never know who bought the ticket that matches all six numbers in Tuesday night's drawing. That's why we always use the term estimate.'

Typically, about 70 percent of sales occur on the drawing day, so forecasting precise numbers in advance can be difficult. 'The jackpot's been rolling since it was hit in July in California, but there are few precedents for a jackpot of this size. 'Estimates are based on historical patterns,' she explained Wednesday morning in a phone interview with The Associated Press. 'The final total was less than the $1.6 billion estimate,' said Carol Gentry, a spokeswoman for the Maryland Lottery, which leads a consortium of state lotteries participating in the Mega Millions jackpot.

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The ticket sold Tuesday is worth about $877.8 million in a lump-sum cash payment, which most winners choose to take, rather than collect the full amount in annual payments over three decades. The earlier Mega Millions estimate of $1.6 billion would have been a world record for lotteries, but actual sales came in below the $1.586 billion Powerball jackpot prize shared by winners in California, Florida and Tennessee in January of 2016. Lottery officials say someone bought a ticket in South Carolina to win the Mega Millions jackpot with a final total of $1.537 billion, shy of the all-time world record.

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