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Your odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are pretty slim: Just 1 in 302,575,350, according to the lottery. The odds of winning the smaller, $1 million prize are 1 in 12,607,306.
The odds may be against you − like 1 in 302.6 million − but that doesn't mean you can't prepare. If there is a winner, Mega Millions jackpot would be the fifth-largest jackpot in Mega Millions ...
Mega Millions is increasing the odds you’ll have a winning lottery ticket by reducing the number of gold Mega Balls used when winning numbers are drawn. This improves the odds from 1 in 25 to 1 ...
Where more than 1 powerball is drawn from a separate pool of balls to the main lottery (for example, in the EuroMillions game), the odds of the different possible powerball matching scores are calculated using the method shown in the "other scores" section above (in other words, the powerballs are like a mini-lottery in their own right), and ...
Mega Millions Payout Calculator. Omni. Mega Millions drawings are every Tuesday and Friday at 11 p.m. ET. Tickets are sold in 45 states, plus the District of Columbia 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.
Texas, as in all Mega Millions jurisdictions except for California, offers an option, called Megaplier (similar to Powerball's Power Play) which multiplies non-jackpot prizes by either 2, 3, 4, or 5. Second prize (5+0), normally $1 million, can be quintupled, to $5 million cash, if Megaplier was chosen.
The odds of winning Mega Millions are 302,575,350 to one. That doesn’t stop thousands of lotto fans from joining the fun and daydreaming about the day they win the grand prize.