No profitable tickets had been offered for Tuesday night time’s $1.1 billion Mega Millions jackpot, so the pot of gold for the sport’s Friday night time drawing will probably be at the very least an estimated $1.35 billion, Mega Millions says.
The $1.35 billion could be the second-largest Mega Millions grand prize ever and will develop as increasingly more individuals gobble up tickets for the Friday drawing.
Friday night time’s money possibility will probably be at the very least an estimated $707.9 million.
Players will probably be hoping a day not often related to good luck is turned on its head: Mega Millions officers level out that Friday will probably be — Friday the thirteenth!
The profitable numbers for Tuesday’s night time’s drawing had been 7, 13, 14, 15 and 18 with a Mega Ball of 9.
The solely Mega Millions jackpot bigger than Friday’s estimated prize was $1.537 billion, received in South Carolina on October 23, 2018.
In November, a single profitable Powerball ticket offered within the Los Angeles metro space received a $2.04 billion jackpot, the most important in lottery historical past. That winner hasn’t been recognized but.
There’ve been 25 drawings because the jackpot was final received on October 14. That one was $502 million and was cut up between holders of profitable tickets in California and Florida.
The $1.35 billion is what a winner who takes the annuity possibility would get. That’s paid out in 29 annual installments. But winners virtually all the time select the money possibility.
Federal taxes are taken out and, relying on the place the winner lives, state taxes are, as properly.
And jackpots are cut up when a couple of profitable ticket is offered.
The odds of profitable the Mega Millions jackpot are a gargantuan one-in-302.6 million.
Mega Millions is performed in 45 states in addition to Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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