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This Tuesday night, the Mega Millions will draw the 3rd largest jackpot in gambling history. A cumulative that, after three months without a winner, amounts to $1.100 million dollars.
This amount is for a winner who elects to be paid via an annuity with 30 payments over 29 years. The winners generally prefer cashwhich for the draw on Tuesday, January 10 would be approximately $568.7 million dollars.
“It’s especially nice to see the jackpot grow over the holiday season and into the new year,” Pat McDonald, principal director of the Mega Millions Consortium, said in the statement.
One of the biggest prizes
This is the fourth time in just over four years that the jackpot exceeds $1,000 million dollarssaid Mega Millions through a statement.
The estimated jackpot is surpassed only by the lottery record of $1.537 million dollars won in South Carolina in 2018 and the $1.337 billion prize won in Illinois in July.
Although the jackpot has not been won, the game features more than 27 million winning tickets sold since the jackpot was last won on October 14.
These include 52 winners who walked away with $1 million or more, in at least 20 different states from coast to coast, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri. , New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
In addition, they were awarded six Mega Millions jackpots in 2022ranging from $20 million in Tennessee to $1.337 million in Illinois.
The most recent jackpot was $502 million, shared by winning tickets in California and Florida on October 14. Since then, there have been 24 drawings since the last jackpot was claimed, the lottery said.
Regardless of how long it takes, the odds of winning the jackpot of the lottery do not change, and are 1 in 302.6 million.
The draw is scheduled for 11:00 p.m. Eastern Timebut it usually takes a couple of hours before it’s clear if there’s a winner.
Mega Millions is played in 45 states, as well as Washington, DC, and the Virgin Islands.
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