Looking to begin the brand new yr off by profitable almost $1 billion?
You’ll wish to get in on Friday’s Mega Millions drawing, which carries a jackpot of an estimated $940 million, the sixth-largest in U.S. historical past. Be cautious: the chances of profitable the highest prize is only one in 302.6 million.
The jackpot ballooned to an estimated $940 million after Tuesday’s drawing, that includes an estimated jackpot of $785 million, didn’t have a single grand prize winner. That has been the end result for 23 straight drawings.
Friday’s drawing carries the fourth largest jackpot in Mega Millions’ 20-year historical past, trailing the $1.53 billion in 2018, $1.33 billion final July and $1.05 billion in 2021. It additionally comes simply months after somebody in California received a $2.04 billion Powerball prize, the most important jackpot in lottery historical past.
Typically, because the jackpot grows so does the variety of gamers, producing large income for the Massachusetts Lottery.
As the Powerball soared to north of $2 billion in November, the Mass Lottery took in about $58.6 million in gross sales, roughly $48.9 million greater than the ticket gross sales in November 2021, lottery information present.
The giant uptick in gross sales from the file Powerball supplied a lift for the Mass Lottery after it noticed gross sales stagnate earlier in 2022. Mega Millions additionally noticed a rise in ticket gross sales in November at $4.8 million, a 85% soar from November 2021, information present.
Through the top of 2022, the Mass Lottery had offered about $2.5 billion in merchandise to date in fiscal yr 2023, a $11.6 million distinction from the identical stretch throughout final fiscal yr.
During a state Lottery Commission assembly final week, Lottery Interim Executive Director Mark William Bracken known as the mixture of Powerball and Mega Millions as a “saving grace” amid slowdowns in different gross sales
Mega Millions drawings are each Tuesday and Friday at 11 p.m., and the $2 tickets could be bought at Mass Lottery retailers.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”