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$340 MILLION: Biggest Mega Millions lottery jackpot ever
Mega Millions: $340 MILLION: Biggest Mega Millions lottery jackpot ever
The $340 million jackpot for Tuesday's Mega Millions lottery drawing will be the largest since The Big Game became Mega Millions in May of 2002. If The Big Game's jackpots are included, the Tuesday Mega Millions jackpot is the second-largest ever to The Big Game's record of $363 Million, set in May of 2000. The only other lottery jackpots that are comparable to Tuesday's Mega Millions jackpot are Powerball's $340 million jackpot on October 19, 2005 and the $365 million jackpot on February 18, 2006, which currently stands as the largest lottery jackpot in history. None of the tickets sold for Friday's night's $275 million drawing matched all five lotto numbers and the Mega Ball. There were 14 second-prize winners from Friday night's drawing: 3 from California, 1 from Maryland, 1 from Massachusetts, 2 from Michigan, 2 from New Jersey, 2 from New York, 2 from Ohio, and 1 from Washington. Each ticket matched five numbers to win $250,000. The 3 second-prize tickets from California will win $355,522 each, since California does not use the same non-jackpot fixed prizes that the other Mega Millions state use. Another 136 players matched four of the five lotto numbers, plus the Mega Ball number. Those tickets are each worth $10,000, except for 28 of those tickets, sold in California, which are worth $10,388 apiece. The winning numbers from Friday's drawing were: 14, 21, 33, 35 and 51. The Mega Ball number was 43. The Texas Megaplier was 4. The prize money has rolled over 14 times since January 9, the last time there was a jackpot winner. The odds of winning the top prize are approximately 1 in 176 million. The odds of winning any of the Mega Millions prizes are approximately 1 in 40. Full details about Mega Millions drawings may be found at USA Mega, including past drawings, after-tax payout amounts, comparison of annuity to cash option, news, statistics, links to draw videos, and a powerful lottery results search engine.
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Greenwich, CT United States Member #4879 May 24, 2004 1822 Posts Offline |
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Finally, there will be long lines at my favorite convenience store on the border, so I will have to go to a more out-of-the-way store.
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Westchester, New York United States Member #49802 January 27, 2007 168 Posts Offline |
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I can't belive nobody won Friday! In fact, less people won the second prize than in the drawing before. It seems so easy....6 numbers and your life changes. I'll be shocked if no one wins Tuesday, but it's nice that the mega millions FINALLY has a Mega jackpot again. This is what people want and why they play, regardless of the odds, I think almost anyone would take a chance at a large jackpot. What's crazy is that there is someone out there who has no idea that in less than a week, his or her life will never be the same. I hope whoever wins is a good person. I would love it to be me, but so would the rest of America, so good luck to all!
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New Member  Windermere, FL United States Member #50670 March 1, 2007 30 Posts Offline |
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If no one wins on Tuesday, this will be the first jackpot over $400 million! Wouldn't that be nice? Good luck to everyone here
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Wandering Aimlessly United States Member #25708 November 5, 2005 4379 Posts Offline |
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"It seems so easy....6 numbers and your life changes." I know exactly what you mean, MissNYC. That's why we keep buying lottery tickets! In fact, I said the same thing last night about a game with much lower odds and a considerably lower jackpot prize. FL has its own version called MegaMoney drawn on Tues & Fri that has only 4 balls (1-44) and a MB (1-22) Yet nobody's won since the end of January. I'd have to go back to see how many drawings, but at least 9 or 10. (it doesn't roll past $2M however) Still, although I'm on a tight budget, last night I said to myself as I walked past the counter "Gee, it seems so easy. Only 5 numbers and everything would be different. Odds are under 1 in 3 million!" So I bought 2 tickets. If I feel that way about $2 million, I can't imagine winning $340!!
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Coastal Georgia United States Member #2703 October 30, 2003 1868 Posts Offline |
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I'm ready to look at my winning ticket Wednesday morning and :  , then I will wake up and 
DD
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Indiana United States Member #49185 January 7, 2007 1207 Posts Offline |
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Darn, Ohio is 2 hours away from me. Looks like I'm not gonna play.
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kent, washington United States Member #3576 January 26, 2004 394 Posts Offline |
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If no one wins on Tuesday, this will be the first jackpot over $400 million! Wouldn't that be nice? Good luck to everyone here i hope you are so right. i would love to see it go up and maybe to 500 million. wow.
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Portland United States Member #7399 September 27, 2004 111 Posts Offline |
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For a long time, Mega stands at his true power! We all have four days to dreaamm, four nice days...who cares what is going to happen after that! Let's enjoy the present,....Let's dance ...come on ....GUYSS
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nashville United States Member #50355 February 18, 2007 907 Posts Offline |
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i live in a powerball state but i may have to go down to georgia and take a shot at this megamillions jackpot because the whole country is excited about it now that it is a new record for megamillions.
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United States Member #10632 January 13, 2005 431 Posts Offline |
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scary $ overkill really one thing to win a mill collect 20k a year annuity another with that kinda scratch people kill for less definily scary --------------------------- but bring it on
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mid-Ohio United States Member #9 March 24, 2001 10551 Posts Offline |
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Darn, Ohio is 2 hours away from me. Looks like I'm not gonna play. You must live in a PowerBall state. I know the feeling because I live in Ohio about two hours from Indiana and feel the same when PowerBall jackpot is $200M+ and MegaMillions jackpot is -$25M. * What happens most *
* will most likely happen again *
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Atlantic Mine, Michigan United States Member #417 June 23, 2002 1593 Posts Offline |
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This jackpot right here has the potential to be the new record holder. I mean they raised the jackpot almost $10,000,000 for the last drawing...and we are only $25 million away right now. Lots of hype now so maybe we will see another record on Tuesday. It would be amazing if it rolled again because it would be in unprecedented territory then....($400million) B-rad
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da bronx,city island,n.y. United States Member #30895 January 17, 2006 147 Posts Offline |
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I can't belive nobody won Friday! In fact, less people won the second prize than in the drawing before. It seems so easy....6 numbers and your life changes. I'll be shocked if no one wins Tuesday, but it's nice that the mega millions FINALLY has a Mega jackpot again. This is what people want and why they play, regardless of the odds, I think almost anyone would take a chance at a large jackpot. What's crazy is that there is someone out there who has no idea that in less than a week, his or her life will never be the same. I hope whoever wins is a good person. I would love it to be me, but so would the rest of America, so good luck to all! yea...... six numbers and my fingers crossed for four days.thanks missnyc..........city island the bronx here
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Maryland United States Member #10659 January 14, 2005 3327 Posts Offline |
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You must live in a PowerBall state. I know the feeling because I live in Ohio about two hours from Indiana and feel the same when PowerBall jackpot is $200M+ and MegaMillions jackpot is -$25M. Funny, I live in a MegaMillion State, but as my daughter said to me this afternoon,"we better go buy some tickets in Ohio if we want to win." Winning at the "Mega" game is slim to no chance here, it seems. Good Luck to all of you MegaMillion players in MARYLAND! litebets Feeling, PRICELESS!!!
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