Alisha Chambers, an employee of the 7-Eleven store on West Jefferson Street, said she sold more than $800 worth of Mega Millions lottery tickets Tuesday. The payout for the Pennsylvania state lottery game reached an estimated $830 million. Molly Miller/Butler Eagle

Alisha Chambers was stuck behind her cash register for the better part of Tuesday, as lines of hopeful millionaires purchased handfuls of Mega Millions lottery tickets.

Within a 10-minute time frame, six people entered the 7-Eleven store on West Jefferson Street and asked Chambers for a ticket.

“For the past few days, it’s been crazy in here,” said Chambers, who has been working there since April.

The estimated jackpot was $830 million, but when no ticket matched all six winning numbers in the 11 p.m. drawing, the Mega Millions jackpot increased to $1.02 billion, the lottery said.

The largest Mega Millions winning ticket previously sold in Pennsylvania was $516 million shared by five people in Bucks County more than a year ago.

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