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Someone in New York is the holder of a lottery won the grand jackpot of the Mega Millions lottery in Tuesday’s draw 21 September.
A single ticket of the Mega Millions lottery sold in that state matched the six numbers drawn (the white balls 36, 41, 45, 51 and 55, plus the Mega Ball 14) to win the prize of $ 431 millions of dollars and if you collect the amount in cash are $ 314. $ 4 million, according to the Mega Millions statement.
The winner will be able to choose between collecting those $ 314. 4 million dollars in one go or receive payments spread over decades.
Another person also became a millionaire with a ticket winning the Mega Millions lottery sold in Connecticut that matched the five white balls from Tuesday’s drawing, to win the second prize of $ 1 million.
And the prize of $ 431 million dollars was the second prize greater than Mega Millions in New York this year, following a prize of $ 96 million earned by a Oneida County couple on 16 February .
Other jackpots of the lottery Mega Millions earned to date in 2021 include $ 516 million dollars in Pennsylvania on 21 May, $ 55 million in Illinois on June 8 and the second-largest jackpot in Mega Millions history, $ 1, 050 million awarded to a group of Michigan players on 22 from January.
The Powerball lottery passed $ 500 million prize
The jackpot of the Powerball lottery surpassed the $ mark on Wednesday night million dollars.
The Powerball lottery has a jackpot of $ 523 thousand lions of dollars. The draw is on Saturday 25 of September. To win it you have to match 5 numbers plus the Powerball.
The possibility of winning the jackpot of any of these two games of lottery with a single ticket is tiny. For Mega Millions , it is 1 in 302 million and for Powerball, 1 in 302 million.
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