ATLANTA — There is at least one person waking up a new billionaire this morning.

One winning $1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot ticket was sold in Simpsonville, South Carolina, the state's Education Lottery said Wednesday. Simpsonville is about 155 miles from Atlanta.

Channel 2's Rikki Klaus visited the store that sold the winning ticket on Wednesday, where she found lots of people waiting in line, testing their luck at Power Ball.

The sign outside the store reads “luck struck here.” Owner C.J. Patel didn’t believe it at first.

"I got a call from the Lottery this morning, and I wasn’t believing them. So I just thought they were joking, but they said come down here and meet us, and this is serious, you know," Patel told Klaus.

Patel said he wants to meet the mystery winner. He told us his store also wins $50,000. He said he’ll give his employees bonuses.

The cash payout is $913.7 million to a single winner.

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The numbers for this week's historic Mega Millions Jackpot were announced late Tuesday night.

The jackpot numbers were: 5, 28, 62, 65, 70 with a Mega Ball of 5.

The odds of winning the $1.6 billion jackpot were listed at 1 in 302,575,350, but that didn't stop thousands, if not millions, of people from playing across the country.

In addition to the jackpot winner, the sales frenzy produced a whopping 36 second-prize tickets – each matching the five white balls drawn Tuesday night. Eight were in California; four each in Florida and New York; two each in Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey and Virginia; and one each in Arizona, the District of Columbia, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin.

The Texas winner and one of the Florida Match 5 winners included the optional Megaplier, so those two tickets are worth $3 million each.

For matching four white balls plus the Mega Ball, 419 tickets won the game’s $10,000 third prize Tuesday night. Fifty-one of those are actually worth $30,000 each because they included the optional Megaplier.

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In total, there were 15,750,013 winning tickets Tuesday night in addition to the jackpot winner. In this 26-draw jackpot run, beginning with the July 27 drawing, there were more than 50.2 million winning tickets at all prize levels, including 85 worth $1 million or more and the jackpot winner.

For the next drawing Friday, Oct. 26, the jackpot resets to its starting value of $40 million ($22.8 million cash). You can watch that drawing on Channel 2 Action News right before the Nightbeat at 11 p.m.

Mega Millions' Impact on Georgia

The Georgia Lottery said the current Mega Millions cycle, which began in July, has raised an estimated $24.3 million for the HOPE Scholarship and pre-K programs in the state.

Fifteen people won $1 million in Friday’s drawing, according to the Georgia Lottery's website.

According to the Georgia Lottery, 14 players in Georgia won $10,000.

Those tickets were purchased in Alpharetta, Athens, Atlanta, Cave Spring, Cornelia, Duluth, Macon, Marietta (2), McDonough, Morrow, Sandy Springs, Stone Mountain and Tifton.

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