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  2. Mega Millions - Wikipedia

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    www.megamillions.com. 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.

  3. Mega number - Wikipedia

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    A mega number, also known as a powerball, mega ball, or bonus ball, is a number drawn in a lottery game that comes from a second number field, rather than among the game's "regular" numbers. [1] As of 2015, forty-six U.S. lotteries offer Mega Millions and Powerball. These games each use two sets of numbers. Mega Millions draws five rubber balls ...

  4. Lotteries in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, lotteries are run by 48 jurisdictions: 45 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Lotteries are subject to the laws of and operated independently by each jurisdiction, and there is no national lottery organization. However, consortiums of state lotteries jointly organize games ...

  5. Texas Lottery - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Lottery is the first and only U.S. lottery to offer $100 scratch-off tickets as of May of 2022. Prizes have included not only cash (from $1 to $20,000,000), and free tickets (which can be used to purchase any Texas drawing game), but also trucks, tickets to sports events, and tours of Cowboys Stadium.

  6. Powerball - Wikipedia

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    Odds of winning jackpot. 292,201,338 to 1 [2] Website. www.powerball.com. Powerball is an American lottery game offered by 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and overseen by the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL), which also manages other large jackpot games such as the Mega Millions.

  7. Lottery jackpot records - Wikipedia

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    Kr. 215 million (€22 million, US$30 million) was the largest single-ticket jackpot in Sweden 's Lotto of Svenska Spel, won on 27 March 2010. [77] €19.1 million (US$21.8 million) was the largest jackpot and largest single-ticket jackpot in Ireland 's Lotto, won on 15 January 2022. €12.2 million (US$15.7 million) was the largest jackpot in ...

  8. Lottery wheeling - Wikipedia

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    The popular US lotteries have odds ranging from the astronomical 1 in about 300 million in the double pick multi-state lottery Mega Millions to the fairly good 1 in about 170 thousands in the pick 5, 31 number, Wisconsin Lottery Badger 5. Wheeling systems are usually intended to provide a minimum guaranteed number of wins if some of the drawn ...

  9. Lottery mathematics - Wikipedia

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    In a typical 6/49 game, each player chooses six distinct numbers from a range of 1–49. If the six numbers on a ticket match the numbers drawn by the lottery, the ticket holder is a jackpot winner— regardless of the order of the numbers. The probability of this happening is 1 in 13,983,816. The chance of winning can be demonstrated as ...