Couple aged 70 and 63 from Arizona win $410MILLION Mega Millions jackpot - the largest in the state's history - after playing for 38 years

A married couple from a Phoenix suburb have claimed the $410 million Mega Millions jackpot after purchasing a ticket from a convenience store.

The winning ticket was sold May 27 at a Circle K in the city of Glendale and matched all six numbers in the June 9 Mega Millions drawing.

It is the first time that the jackpot has been won in Arizona, and the win is the largest in a year. 

The couple, a 70-year-old man and 63-year-old woman, chose to remain anonymous under state law but told lottery officials they have played the lottery regularly for 38 years, KNXV reported. They chose their own numbers based on family birthdays.

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A married couple from a Phoenix suburb have claimed the $410 million Mega Millions jackpot after purchasing a ticket from a convenience store. The winning check is pictured here

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The winning ticket was sold May 27 at a Circle K in the city of Glendale, pictured, and matched all six numbers in the June 9 Mega Millions drawing

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The married couple from a Phoenix suburb claimed the $410 million Mega Millions jackpot after purchasing a ticket from a convenience store (file photo)

'My birthday is next month, and my left hand had been itching for two weeks, which meant money was coming my way,' the wife said, according to lottery officials. 

'I also found a shiny new heads-up penny just before I bought our tickets, so I just knew I'd be lucky.'

The Arizona Lottery has said it was the 11th largest jackpot in Mega Millions history and the largest payout in Arizona lottery history.

The pair chose the lump-sum cash option which pays out $319.9 million, KPHO reported. 

The Arizona Lottery has said it was the 11th largest jackpot in Mega Millions history and the largest payout in Arizona lottery history

After $76 million is paid in federal taxes and $15.3 million goes to state taxes, the couple will take home $227.8 million.

The couple plans to pay off their mortgage, set aside money to provide for their children and grandchildren, invest, and enjoy the rest, lottery officials said.

'I feel lighter now and it's incredible to know that there will never be another bill that I can't pay,' the husband said, according to lottery officials.

Circle K will also receive a $50,000 sales incentive from the Arizona Lottery for selling the winning ticket, which it has pledged to donate to United Cerebral Palsy of Central Arizona.

The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350 in the 45 states where it's offered, plus Washington and the US Virgin Islands.

Last August Arizona joined a growing number of states allowing people who win lottery jackpots of $100,000 to remain anonymous forever.

Lottery winners in Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Texas, North Dakota and Ohio are also allowed to conceal their identities if the winnings exceed a certain dollar amount, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Other states, like New York, make it easy for winners to collect their prizes under the cover of an L.L.C. or an entity.

John Gilleland, spokesman for the Arizona Lottery, said all big winners since the new law was enacted have opted to remain anonymous.

'Every single person that has won that sort of money has opted for that,' he said.

America's largest-ever single lottery win was a $1.537 billion Mega Millions jackpot, won by a person in Simpsonville, South Carolina in October 2018.

The biggest jackpot ever was a $1.586 billion Powerball, won in January 2016 and split between three people.