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The 2011 top prize of €720 million [citation needed] was paid out as €4 million [86] (US$5.2 million) to each of the 180 tickets. [ citation needed ] In 2012, the first prize was €720 million (then US$941.8 million; $1.215 billion in 2022 dollars), [ citation needed ] out of a total prize pool of €2.52 billion (US$3.297 billion; $4.255 ...
For example, in 1970, tickets cost $1.55 or about $6.68 in inflation-adjusted 2004 dollars; by 1980, prices had risen to about $2.69, a drop to $5.50 in inflation-adjusted 2004 dollars. [24] Ticket prices have also risen at different rates of inflation around the world, further complicating the process of adjusting worldwide grosses. [22]
Originally bonds could be purchased as in units of five Irish pounds, with a minimum purchase of £10. Today the unit price is 6.25 Euros (equivalent to IR£4.92 at the final fixed exchange rate) and a minimum purchase of €25 is required. In September 2009 the Prize Bond fund exceeded €1bn for the first time. [3]
The owners of the California gas station who sold the fifth largest Mega Millions ticket in history on Friday were elated to learn their store had played a small part in the $1.22 billion jackpot ...
After no ticket was sold for Tuesday's jackpot, the top prize has been pushed to $1.28 billion for Friday's drawing, making it the second-largest jackpot in the game's history.
Equivalently, they were bonds with annual interest rate 10+x%, where x is drawn from a lottery that gave x = 1.5 effectively. [1] The tickets themselves remained a tradable commodity after the lottery draw (in November 1694), because each ticket still yielded £1 a year for 16 years. The price of a ticket fluctuated around £5-8 during 1694 ...
Jerry Hicks, a Banner Elk resident, found $20 on the ground, then won $1 million on a scratch-off ticket. ... The odds of winning the top prize of $1 million are 1 in 2,017,650, ...
Each week, five players who had won a "free ticket" prize had their names on a special wheel, the player whose name the wheel stopped on would win $50,000 or $100,000 in cash, or a $1 million annuity. The other 4 finalists left the weekly drawing empty handed. On May 5, 1990, Saturday Spin was changed to Million Dollar Spin. In the second ...