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More than $ 1 billion at stake between Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots

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The Powerball jackpot is $ 470 million, while Mega Millions rose to $ 600 millions Photo: Joe Raedle / Getty Images

The cumulative prizes combined for the Lotteries Mega Millions and Powerball skyrocketed to over $ 1 billion on Saturday, after Friday night’s drawing of the lottery Mega Millions did not produce a winner of the grand prize.

The jackpot of the lottery Powerball is $ 470 million dollars, and the Mega Millions jackpot soared to $ 600 million.

Only 4 times Mega Millions has reached $ 600 millions or more For the fourth time in the history of the Mega Millions lottery, the jackpot has reached $ 600 million dollars.

The jackpot continues growing after no ticket matched all six numbers drawn on Friday night.

As a result, the estimated jackpot for next Tuesday January’s drawing 12 , are $ 537 million dollars. The bag will be $ 442 .4 million after tax, if the full prize of the lottery is collected in cash.

The first time the game of lottery Mega Millions exceeded the threshold of $ 600 million of dollars was the 30 March 2012, when a prize of $ 656 millions of dollars divided among lottery winners from Illinois, Kansas and Maryland. At that time, it was a world record for a game of lottery.

He 17 from December to 2013, winners from California and Georgia shared a top prize of $ 648 millions of dollars.

And the 23 October 2013 won an incredible prize of $ 1, 537 billion dollars in South Carolina, the jackpot of the world’s largest ever awarded by a single ticket.

And Powerball continues to grow too At least until the drawing on Saturday January 9, because the Powerball drawing on Wednesday did not produce a grand prize winner, and the jackpot from the drawing on Saturday 9 January reached an estimated value of $ 470 millions of dollars ($ 362, 7 million in cash after taxes),

Already this is the 10th largest prize in the history of the lottery Powerball.

The last Powerball jackpot came in the drawing for 17 September 2020, when a ticket worth $ 94. 8 million dollars in New York.

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