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The Gold Ball Draw reached a 1 in 2 chance of awarding $66 million on the September 23, 2023 draw, the largest jackpot in Lotto 6/49 history. [12] The jackpot was not awarded to the Gold Ball Draw winner, meaning that the maximum jackpot of $68 million was awarded for the first time during the September 27 draw.
A six-number lottery game is a form of lottery in which six numbers are drawn from a larger pool (for example, 6 out of 44). Winning the top prize, usually a progressive jackpot , requires a player to match all six regular numbers drawn; the order in which they are drawn is irrelevant.
CHF 64.6 million (US$72.8 million) was the largest winner in Switzerland's Swiss Lotto, won on 2 March 2024. [81] £35.1 million (US$49.6 million) was the largest winner on the UK Lotto game in April 2016. €38.4 million (US$49.7 million) was the largest jackpot in the Netherlands draw of the Staatsloterij (State Lottery) in May 2013.
These most drawn white ball Mega Millions numbers in 2024 are: 58 drawn 6 times. 19 drawn 5 times. 61 drawn 5 times. 66 drawn 5 times. The most drawn gold Mega Ball numbers in 2024 are: 1 drawn 3 ...
Mega Millions players have a 1 in 302,575,350 chance to match all five white balls plus the gold Mega Ball. ... The winning numbers for the drawing on Tuesday, Oct. 31 were 14-35-37-55-70 and the ...
Among the 10 largest lottery winners, Powerball had the most with six, Mega Millions had four. ... The first time any jackpot grew past $1 billion. On Jan. 13, three tickets hit, each worth almost ...
The first French lottery was created by King Francis I in or around 1505. After that first attempt, lotteries were forbidden for two centuries. They reappeared at the end of the 17th century, as a "public lottery" for the Paris municipality (called Loterie de L'Hotel de Ville) and as "private" ones for religious orders, mostly for nuns in convents.
Lottery mathematics is used to calculate probabilities of winning or losing a lottery game. It is based primarily on combinatorics, particularly the twelvefold way and combinations without replacement. It can also be used to analyze coincidences that happen in lottery drawings, such as repeated numbers appearing across different draws. [1