Lottery: Megamillions : Record jackpot Coming Wednesday
The biggest jackpot in the world those days is the Mega Millions jackpot. Once again, no jackpot winner in Friday’s Mega Millions drawing. We are now talking about a jackpot estimated $252 million for the Tuesday, August 25, 2009, drawing.
Last Friday 1,964,485 tickets won prizes. The winning numbers were: 9-38-44-48-49 and the Mega Ball number was 13.
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What It Is: MegaMillions is a multi-state lottery that runs in California, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Maine, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Texas, Virginia and Washington. This lottery is BIG and it frequently runs into 100’s of millions of dollars.
All you have to do is choose 5 numbers from 1 to 56 and one number from 1 to 46 and hope for the best. Matching the 1-to-46 number makes you a winner, otherwise you have to match at least one 1-to-56 number and the 1-to-46 number or three 1-to-56 numbers to win. Match all numbers and you win it all! Drawings are held Tuesday and Friday nights.
The Odds Like all lotteries, the odds aren’t pretty. Still, they’re better than some other lotteries out there. Your overall odds of winning are 1 in 40. The odds of taking it all are 1 in 175,711,536.
Why You Should Play You should play because of the massive amounts of freaking money you can win! It’s not like the jackpot gets into the 100 million range every once in a while; it gets there often. In fact, the MegaMillions has awarded the largest North American jackpot in history: $390 Million Dollars. All of the sudden, 1 in 175,711,536 odds don’t look so bad do they?
Success Story David Sneath didn’t play the lottery often, but he decided to buy a ticket on his 60th birthday. Little did he know, it would change the rest of his life. The advertised jackpot was $135 Million, but the total was actually $136 Million. His friends thought he was playing an April Fool’s joke when he told them he won. Sneath took the “lump sum” option and was paid $84,367,246. Could the next success story be yours?
