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Effectively over half a billion {dollars} is up for grabs this Tuesday, because the Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpot continues to build up over three and a half months.
The $650 million is the tenth-largest jackpot in Mega Hundreds of thousands historical past, because the recreation started in 2002. The money payout for the winner could be $304.1 million.
Tuesday’s drawing marks the thirty third for the jackpot run that started following “the last big win in Virginia on June 27,” in accordance with a Mega Hundreds of thousands press launch.
“It continues growing after no ticket matched all six numbers drawn Friday night – the white balls 9, 21, 27, 48 and 56, plus the gold Mega Ball 10,” the press launch stated.
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Folks wait in line to buy their Mega Hundreds of thousands lottery ticket from a liquor retailer the place successful tickets have been offered on December 27, 2024 in Hawthorne, California. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP / Getty Pictures)
The final time a top-10 jackpot was seen was December, when the prize reached $1.269 billion.
Mega Hundreds of thousands additionally says a “game change last April has led to hundreds of millions of dollars more paid in non-jackpot prizes compared to the old prize structure.”
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A person holds Mega Hundreds of thousands lottery tickets on July 29, 2022, in New York Metropolis. (John Smith/VIEWpress / Getty Pictures)
Over the past drawing on Friday, 416,751 successful tickets for non-jackpot prizes totaled greater than $8.5 million.
Previous to June’s jackpot winner, different main payouts had been in Ohio in April, Illinois in March and Arizona in January.
A clerk prints a Mega Hundreds of thousands lottery ticket at a comfort retailer on December 17, 2013, in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson / Getty Pictures)
Tickets are $5 every. They’re offered in 45 states, Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Most buy cutoffs are one to 2 hours previous to drawings, which happen at 11 p.m. Jap Time on Tuesdays and Fridays in Atlanta, Georgia.
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“The overall odds of winning any Mega Millions prize are 1 in 23; the odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 290,472,336,” in accordance with Mega Hundreds of thousands.
