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Dangle onto these stocking-stuffer lottery tickets.
The Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpot has surpassed $1 billion after no ticket matched all six numbers drawn on Christmas Eve. Meaning the estimated jackpot for Friday’s drawing is $1.15 billion, probably the fifth-largest jackpot within the sport’s historical past.
“We all know that many individuals will probably obtain tickets to Friday’s drawing as vacation presents, and what a present that might become in case you ended up with a ticket value a $1.15 billion jackpot,” Joshua Johnston, lead director for the Mega Hundreds of thousands Consortium mentioned in a Wednesday assertion.
The percentages of successful the Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350, whereas the percentages of successful any Mega Hundreds of thousands prize are 1 in 24, in line with lottery officers.
Tickets for the sport are bought in 45 states, together with Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Mega Hundreds of thousands tickets are $2 a chunk. Half of the proceeds from the sale of every ticket stays within the state the place the ticket was bought. Drawings are held at 11 p.m. Jap Time on Tuesdays and Fridays.
“I can’t consider a greater technique to have fun the vacations – whether or not Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, the Winter Solstice, or every other method folks select to have fun the season – than by serving to fulfill the goals that include a prize like this and prizes that might be gained in any respect ranges of the sport,” Johnston mentioned.
