Winning Mega Millions Tickets Sold in Maryland, Illinois, Kansas

(CNN) — At least three winners will split Friday’s record $640 million Mega Millions jackpot.

Winning tickets were confirmed in Maryland, Illinois and Kansas according to lottery officials.

Lottery officials are waiting for information on potential jackpot winners from other Mega Millions states.

The winning Illinois ticket was a quick pick sold at the Moto Mart in
Red Bud, Illinois, according to the Illinois lottery. The winning
Maryland ticket was sold in Baltimore County, the Maryland Lottery said
Saturday. The Kansas ticket was sold in the northeastern part of the
state, according to the Kansas State Lottery website.

The winning numbers were 2, 4, 23, 38, 46 with a Mega Ball of 23.

California Lottery Commission spokesman Alex Traverso said 29 tickets
sold in that state matched five of the six winning numbers. He said the
payout will be about $125,000 to $130,000.

The multistate jackpot caused long lines at convenience stores, with
many dreaming of creative ways to quit their jobs if they get the lucky
numbers.

Sales skyrocketed at Manhattan Tobacco, a New York convenience store,
cashier Alex Shanahe said. He said the store has proved to be lucky
before, having sold winning tickets of $3 million and $5 million.

“The sales have tripled. Everybody wants to win the Mega Millions,” Shanahe said before the drawing.

A single winner could claim yearly payments or a one-time cash option
of $462 million, Mega Millions spokeswoman Kelly Cripe said.

The Mega Millions lottery is played in 42 states plus the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands, lottery officials say.

The odds of winning the jackpot are about one in 176 million, which
means a person would have a better chance of getting struck by
lightning.

Myra Langford, 70, a retired school administrator, said she knows the odds but still bought five tickets.

If she wins, Langford said, she will help fix the roof of her church
and move out of the cramped Queens apartment she lived in for the past
47 years.

“You got to be in it to win it,” she said, parroting a commercial.

Economist Austan Goolsbee, a professor at the University of Chicago
who also chaired the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said the
winner or winners should take the lump sum instead of the annuity.

The choice comes down to interest rates, and with interest rates at
zero, the lump sum just makes better financial sense, he said.

“If you are fortunate enough to win the lottery, you most certainly want to take the lump sum,” Goolsbee said.

Psychologist Scott Bea said if a winner is a poor money manager and
has been unhappy in life before winning, that’s likely to continue.

“It solves one problem, but it creates a half-billion others,” he
said. “You have about no chance at winning this, but it really gets
people excited.”

His wife asked him if the couple could spend $10 on lottery tickets.

“We could probably flush it down the toilet and have the same outcome, but if it gives you some hope, why not?” Bea said.

CNN’s Greg Morrison, Mary Snow, Chris Dignam and Devon Sayers contributed to this report.