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In August 2023, Mega Millions reached a record-breaking jackpot of $1.602 billion, and earlier in 2024, it reached $1.128 billion. That’s billion with a B. 9 Ways You Can Win the Mega Millions
Grand Prize: Match all five numbers and the Mega Ball number to win the biggest Mega Millions jackpots. The odds of winning are one in 302,575,350. The odds of winning are one in 302,575,350.
A Mega Millions player used her go-to lottery strategy — and it led to a big win in North Carolina. ... Mega Millions is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Mega Millions (originally known as The Big Game in 1996 and renamed, temporarily, to The Big Game Mega Millions six years later) is an American multijurisdictional lottery game. The first drawing took place on September 6, 1996, with six participating states, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Massachusetts, and Virginia.
The probability of hitting the jackpot varies between the different lotteries. Popular US lotteries have odds ranging from the astronomical 1 in ~300 million in Mega Millions (a double-pick lottery) to the fairly good 1 in ~170 thousand in the Wisconsin Lottery Badger 5 (a pick-5, 31 number lottery). Wheeling systems are usually intended to ...
The next Mega Millions drawing is Tuesday at 11 p.m. ET. Here's how to play for the $493 million jackpot.
After no ticket matched all numbers drawn in Tuesday night’s Mega Millions lottery, anyone feeling lucky has another chance to win the jackpot, which now stands at a whopping $977 million, at ...
It became Mega Millions six years later. Players select six numbers from two number pools: 5 numbers from 1 through 70, and the Mega Ball number (1 through 25) for a chance to win a multimillion-dollar jackpot. Currently, Mega Millions jackpots begin at $20 million (annuity value), and increases when there is no top prize winner.