The winning Mega Millions lottery ticket - worth $319 million - was sold at an Albany convenience store just blocks from the capitol, lottery officials said.
The multimillion dollar winning numbers were: 22-24-31-52-54, and the Mega ball was 4.
Employees at Coulson's News Center are bursting with pride, even though they don't know who the winner is yet. They won't get official notification from state lottery officials until Monday, when they indicate what day and time the ticket was sold, clerk Steve Gallucci said.
Gallucci, who clocks 60 hours a week, said there's a good chance he sold the winning ticket.
"I'm happy about it," he said. "I hope whoever wins it uses it in a good way. I gave away a couple of Quick Picks - who knows, maybe I gave away $300 million."
Coulson's is a shop that has been selling newspapers, magazines, sodas and snacks from their Albany's business district storefront for more than 70 years.
"We cater to the business people who work in the offices around here, so we see them every day," said Gallucci, 53, who has worked there since 1974. "They've been coming all week, playing the slips."
The winner has the option of taking the prize as a $202.9 million lump sum or receiving payments over the next 25 years.
Friday's big Quick Pick winner is now the largest jackpot for a single-winning ticket, and the fifth-largest in the history of Mega Millions.
March 2007's $390 million jackpot remains the largest ever. It was claimed by two players in New Jersey and Georgia.
The jackpot nearly reached that level again in January when it inched up to $380 million. Players in Idaho and Washington state won that prize.
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