A lucky Mega Millions ticket holder in Florida won the estimated $800 million jackpot — the largest of the year and tenth-largest in the game’s history — on Tuesday night. MargJohnsonVA – stock.adobe.comThe unidentified ticketholder can choose between the $800 million prize or a one-time pre-tax $344.2 million cash payout. A $3 million winning ticket was sold at the Corner Market in Buffalo, NY. The $800 million prize is the tenth largest in Mega Millions history, surpassing the $656 million jackpot shared by three winners from Illinois, Kansas and Maryland in March 2012. The first, on August 8, holds the record for the largest Mega Millions jackpot in history, when Saltines Holdings, LLC, in Neptune Beach, Florida, claimed the $1.62 billion prize.