SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) A group of California co-workers who decided to play the lottery on a whim won last months $543 million Mega Millions jackpot, the largest prize ever on a single state ticket, the California Lottery said Friday.
The 11 co-workers who work in the financial industry in the San Francisco Bay Area said they dont have a regular lottery pool but decided to chip in $2 a piece when they heard how big the jackpot had become, the Lottery said in a news release Friday.
It was spur of the moment, said Roland Reyes, the only person among the co-workers whose name has been released, the Lottery said.