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Mega Millions Winning Numbers

March 28, 2012 by · Comments Off on Mega Millions Winning Numbers 

Mega Millions Winning Numbers, A mere six weeks ago in February, Louisa White of Rhode Island won a Powerball lottery jackpot worth $336.4 million. She claimed a lump sum payout of $210 million.

A once in a lifetime opportunity for White? Most likely. But some lucky Mega Millions lottery player has an opportunity to earn even more, like the largest cash option payout in lottery history in the drawing of March 27.

Philly.com reports that the jackpot for the next Mega Millions lottery on Tuesday is an estimated $363 million, and the lump sum payout will be $259.8 million, beating the record of $240 million from January 4, 2011. A Mega Millions pot of $380 million was won by two tickets in that drawing.

The Mega Millions website reported that the winning numbers for the drawing of March 23 drawing were: 6,17,19, 20, and 21, and the Mega Ball was 20.

According to Lottery Post, 39 players matched the first five numbers without getting the Mega Ball, and three of them were from New Jersey. Each of those players will receive $250,000. Friday marked the 17th consecutive Mega Millions jackpot drawing without a winner.

Lottery Post pointed out that one of the reasons for the latest rollover may have been that the Mega Ball number matched one of the first five numbers. The Mega Ball is drawn from a separate pool of numbers and it is within the game’s rules for it to match, but casual players may not be aware of that.

Megamillions Winning Numbers

February 22, 2012 by · Comments Off on Megamillions Winning Numbers 

Megamillions Winning Numbers, A ticket sold in Mitchell is worth $30,000 following the Feb. 17 Mega Millions drawing. The lucky ticket holder matched four of five white ball numbers and the Mega Ball to win the $10,000 third prize. Because they also purchased the Megaplier option for an additional dollar and the Megaplier drawn was 3, the prize is tripled to $30,000.

Winning numbers are 16, 25, 28, 32, and 40. The Mega Ball is 3 and the Megaplier is 3. The odds of winning $10,000 playing Mega Millions are 1:689,065.

The owner of the ticket is advised to sign the back of it immediately and put it in a safe place before contacting the Sioux Falls Lottery office at 367-5840 or the Pierre Lottery office at 773-5770. Winners have 180 days to claim their prize.

Mega Millions is played in 42 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The jackpot currently sits at $72 million for the next drawing is tonight, Feb. 21.

Mega Millions

January 19, 2012 by · Comments Off on Mega Millions 

Mega Millions, There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in the latest drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery and the estimated jackpot for Friday’s drawing will grow to $60 million.
Five tickets — two each sold in California and Iowa and one in South Carolina — had five numbers, but didn’t have the Mega number.

The two sold in California are each worth $114,403 and the ones sold in Iowa and South Carolina $250,000 each, a California Lottery official announced today. California law requires most major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis.

The numbers drawn Tuesday night were 3, 15, 31, 36, 53 and the Mega number was 27. The estimated jackpot was $50 million.

The drawing was the sixth since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.

The odds of matching all five numbers and the Mega number is 1 in 175,711,536, according to the Mega Millions website. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 40.

The Mega Millions game is played in 41 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Mega Millions Winning Numbers

December 28, 2011 by · Comments Off on Mega Millions Winning Numbers 

Mega Millions Winning NumbersMega Millions Winning Numbers, No one won the Mega Millions drawing two days before Christmas, but who wouldn’t like some extra cash to use on those post-Christmas sales? Oh, like about $206 million worth?

That’s the estimated jackpot total for the next Mega Millions drawing on Tuesday, Dec. 27. It’s a total that might buy shoppers an entire store. The Mega Millions website reports the estimated cash option payout will be a rather large $151.9 million.

The winning Mega Millions numbers for Friday, December 23rd were as follows:

3 – 5 – 8 -18 – 29 and Mega Ball: 14.

Lottery Post reports that 31 players matched the first five numbers without the Mega ball to win $250,000, 3 of them coming from New Jersey this time. 15 consecutive Mega Millions drawings have now taken place without seeing a jackpot winner.

Chances for a green Christmas were higher than usual this past weekend because Saturday’s Powerball drawing went off with a jackpot prize of $125 million. The winning ticket was sold at Wesley’s Restaurant and Lounge in Elkton, Maryland, according to KYTX CBS 19. The lump sum payout will be almost $52 million.

Business owner John Wesley said the winner had already called to confirm his numbers. ” The guy said, “I’ll be there in two days to see you. I want everything to settle down a little,” Wesley said.

The winning Powerball numbers for Saturday, December 24 were 14-16-30-51-52, and the Powerball was 19. According to the Washington Post, seven players matched the first five numbers without the Powerball to earn $200,000, one of them being from New Jersey.

Meanwhile, The Inquisitr reports that an unclaimed $77 million Powerball lottery winning ticket from June 29 purchased in Georgia was set to expire at 5:00 p.m. Monday evening.

The Georgia Lottery has a 180-day window for players to claim their winnings.

Mega Millions N.J.

March 16, 2011 by · Comments Off on Mega Millions N.J. 

Mega Millions, Lottery players in New Jersey are thinking green two days before St. Patrick. A lot of green. The grand prize of Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawing and amounted to million. A winner would have the option to make annual payments of about 6 million and years or on foot with an option of lump sum cash payment of 108.9 million.

In this Mega Friday night’s drawing millions, there was no jackpot winner, but according lotterypost.com, lucky players are the first 5 numbers for a prize of 250,000, and one of him or her from New Jersey.

40 years of the New Jersey Lottery surpasses many operations other states comparable sales and the amount of income it provides to the state. In 2010, despite an economic downturn that has hurt the casinos and racetracks, the state lottery has broken all records of its past earnings.

Mega Millions winning numbers for Tuesday, March 15, 2011:

10, 11, 28, and Mega Ball 45

In June 2010, the Treasury Department of State and Acting Director of the State Lottery Commission Carole Hedinger announced that total profits for the previous 12 months and exceeded 2.6 billion for the first time.

Not all states shared such good fortune: The Press of Atlantic City last year a study by the Rockefeller Institute for Government, based in New York, in the same period that some lotteries, such as those Oregon and West Virginia, lost as much as 15 percent of their income. Neighboring Pennsylvania, which has expanded casino gambling, declined last year, too, about million, or nearly 1 percent of revenue.

But money can create as many problems as it solves if you’re not careful. There are too many stories of people winning the lottery that turn into nightmares.

Craig Wallace, a fundraiser for a leading company that buys lottery annuity in exchange for lump sums, bankrate.com says, “In New Jersey, they manipulate the reality of the situation to sell more tickets. Each winner takes a picture with a check that becomes a 3-foot by 5-foot stand-up card winner is photographed next to a beautiful woman and the caption reads: new millionaire from New Jersey ”

Evelyn Adams won the New Jersey twice in 1985 and 1986, for a total of 5.4 million. Today, money is gone and Adams lives in a trailer.

“Everybody wanted my money everybody had on hand I have never heard a single word in the English language -.” No, “said Adams.

Tuesday Mega Millions jackpot will be the Th drawing since the last jackpot winner. If no one wins on Tuesday, Friday Mega Millions drawing and could eventually approach $ million.

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