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A 6/39 lottery drawing with a fixed, non-rolling jackpot of €1 million, Daily Million took place once each day until April 2016. From that point, two draws have been held each day. [91] Daily Million costs €1 per line to play. For an extra €0.50 per line, players can also play Daily Million Plus for a top prize of €500,000.
Daily Millions was a US lottery game administered by the Multi-State Lottery Association(MUSL). It was available in some of the jurisdictions that sell MUSL's most popular game, Powerball; membership fluctuated during the period when it was available. It began in September 1996 and was discontinued in March 1998.
The Poker Million has been a televised European poker tournament since its inception in November 2000. The final debuted to 30 million viewers and has since remained popular. [ 1 ] It was created by UK gaming outfit Ladbrokes with the help of sports promotion firm Matchroom Sport .
The Numbers Game is played twice daily. It draws 4 1-digit numbers, bets can be made on a 1-digit and/or 2-digit number. 3-digit numbers are "first 3" or "last 3," as a 3-digit number is not drawn separately. Minimum wagers are 25 cents on a 3-digit or 4-digit number, and 50 cents on a 2-digit number or 1-digit.
Mega Millions plays are $2 each unless the Megaplier option is chosen (such games are $3 each.) The minimum jackpot in Mega Millions is $40,000,000. Mega Millions began in 1996 as The Big Game. Six years later, the New York and Ohio lotteries joined simultaneously on May 17, 2002; the game was temporarily rebranded The Big Game Mega Millions.
The Rhode Island Lottery offered Daily Millions, MUSL's secondary jackpot game to Powerball, in 1996 to replace the in-state Rhody Cash. As its name implies, draws occurred daily instead of the standard 2 or 3 times a week, with a top prize of $1 million should they match all six winning numbers from three separate pick-2-of-22 number matrixes ...
Lottery games with "lifetime" prizes, known by names such as Cash4Life, Lucky for Life, and Win for Life, comprise two types of United States lottery games in which the top prize is advertised as a lifetime annuity; unlike annuities with a fixed period (such as 25 years), lifetime annuities often pay (sometimes for decades) until the winner's death.
Hermus Millsaps of Taylor, Michigan won the first $1 million prize on February 22, 1973. When he won, Mr. Millsaps was 53 years old, a native of Tennessee and worked at a Chrysler Automobile plant. He and his wife spent all their money on bus fare to Lansing and the first Michigan Lottery Commissioner, Gus Harrison , had a lottery agent drive ...