An unknown lottery winner has a choice between $1,000 a week for life or $1 million up front, according to the Missouri Lottery. The winning ticket for the multistate Cash4Life game was sold by a Casey’s convenience store in Cole Camp, Missouri.

The Mega Millions jackpot was last hit Jan. 17, when an Arizona player won the $112 million grand prize, lottery officials said. To score the jackpot in the Mega Millions, a player must match all five white balls and the gold Mega Ball. The odds of scoring a jackpot prize are 1 in 302,575,350.

A Jackson County, Missouri woman who recently claimed a $1 million Mega Millions prize explains the events that led to her purchasing the ticket.

Someone won $50,000 playing Mega Millions after matching four numbers and the Mega Ball in the Jan. 28 drawing, just missing the estimated $44 million jackpot, the Georgia Lottery said. The winning ticket was sold at a Kroger fuel station in Tucker,

His wife was in the kitchen and he was in the living room of their Missouri home, “and he kept running around to tell me what he had won,” she said.

The winning numbers have been announced for the Tuesday Mega Millions drawing with a recently reset jackpot. The winning numbers have been announced for the Tuesday, Jan. 28 Mega Millions drawing. The estimated jackpot is $44 million,