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  2. Mega Millions player in California wins $1.3 billion jackpot

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    Odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350. The largest ever in U.S. lottery jackpot history came in November 2022 when a single ticket holder in California won a $2.04 billion Powerball ...

  3. California store owners who sold Mega Millions $1.22B jackpot ...

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    The unidentified lucky ticketholder can choose between the $1.22 billion jackpot paid out in installments over 29 years or take the one-time lump sum estimated at $549.7 million.

  4. Winning ticket for $1.22 billion Mega Millions jackpot sold ...

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    The Mega Millions jackpot winner could either take the cash payout of $549.7 million or the $1.22 billion annuity paid out over 30 years. ... The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350.

  5. Mega Millions - Wikipedia

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    The probability and odds can be taken into a mathematical perspective: The probability of winning the jackpot (through October 27, 2017) was 1:(75 C 5) x (15), that is: 75 ways for the first white ball times 74 ways for the second times 73 for the third times 72 for the fourth times 71 for the last white ball divided by 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1, or 5 ...

  6. Lottery mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Another example of such a game is Mega Millions, albeit with different jackpot odds. 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 ...

  7. Lottery wheeling - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Mega Millions $1.22 billion jackpot won by player in ... - AOL

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    The winning ticket for the $1.22 billion Mega Millions jackpot sold in California, the first time the grand prize was won in more than three months. ... The odds of winning the grand prize are 1 ...

  9. The Lottery Hackers - The Huffington Post

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    This particular game was called Winfall. A ticket cost $1. You picked six numbers, 1 through 49, and the Michigan Lottery drew six numbers. Six correct guesses won you the jackpot, guaranteed to be at least $2 million and often higher. If you guessed five, four, three, or two of the six numbers, you won lesser amounts.