MIAMI — Lottery players will have a shot at an believed $820 million Mega Millions jackpot Tuesday night time, fewer than a week after somebody strike a Powerball prize that topped $1 billion.
The figures drawn Tuesday night time have been: 44, 6, 61, 3, 5 and 25.
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The big Mega Tens of millions jackpot is the eighth-premier U.S. lottery prize and follows a $1.08 billion prize received by a participant Wednesday in Los Angeles. California lottery officers have not announced a winner of that prize, which was the sixth-biggest in U.S. history.
Jackpots in the two lottery game titles grow so huge for the reason that the steep odds make winning so unlikely, allowing the grand prize to roll about all over again and all over again. The very last time another person defeat Mega Millions’ odds of 1 in 203.5 million and gained a jackpot was April 18 — that is 27 drawings with no a significant winner.
The game pays out numerous additional more compact prizes, which start out at $2. The all round odds of winning any prize is 1 in 24.
The $820 million prize for Tuesday night’s drawing is for a sole winner who chooses payment as a result of an annuity, with a person immediate payment and then 29 yearly allotments. Jackpot winners just about constantly just take the hard cash solution, which for Tuesday night’s drawing would be an approximated $422 million.
Mega Thousands and thousands is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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