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$1.28 BILLION: Lottery officials raise tonight's Mega Millions jackpot estimate againNews Story
Lottery ticket-buying frenzy throughout the USA By Todd Northrop Across the United States, lottery tickets are being sold at a frantic pace that the state lotteries are struggling to keep up. Most of those sales are for the multi-state Mega Millions lottery game, which features a jackpot reaching into stratospheric heights only seen twice before in world history and a lump-sum cash value worth three quarters of a billion dollars. Just a day after the jackpot was raised to $1.1 bi
Jul 29, 2022, 12:56 pm - Lottery News

$1.1 BILLION: Rush of Mega Millions lottery sales prompts officials to raise jackpot estimateNews Story
Now the 3rd-largest lottery jackpot in history By Todd Northrop A rush of lottery ticket sales for the $1.025 billion Mega Millions jackpot has prompted lottery officials to revise their estimate for the Friday night drawing just one day after it was announced to $1.1 billion an increase of $75 million. The increased jackpot now ranks as the 3rd-largest lottery jackpot in history, and the 2nd-largest in Mega Millions game history. The all-important lump-sum cash value is now esti
Jul 28, 2022, 12:40 pm - Lottery News

MEGA BILLION LOTTERY DRAWING FRIDAYNews Story
$1.025 BILLION Mega Millions jackpot is 4th largest the world has ever seen Cash value is $602.5 million By Todd Northrop The most commonly-heard phrase this week just might be, Did you get Mega Millions tickets? That's because nobody won the Mega Millions multi-state lottery drawing Tuesday night, sending the Friday jackpot to heights only seen three times before in history. The multi-state game is now sporting a jackpot of more than $1 billion, with a cash value of nearly
Jul 27, 2022, 1:59 am - Lottery News

$790 MILLION: Fourth-largest lottery jackpot in history to be drawn TuesdayNews Story
Cash value worth nearly a half-billion dollars By Todd Northrop After 28 drawings without a jackpot winner, the multi-state Mega Millions lottery game now boasts a swelling jackpot of $790 million that could instantly put someone among the wealthiest people on the planet. When nobody won Friday night's grand prize, the Mega Millions jackpot grew to an estimated $790 million the largest since a $1.05 billion Mega Millions jackpot from a Jan. 2021 drawing was claimed anonymously by a 4
Jul 23, 2022, 8:21 am - Lottery News

$630 MILLION: Mega Millions jackpot soars after no winner TuesdayNews Story
12th-largest US lottery jackpot in history; 15th-largest cash value By Todd Northrop There are going to be a lot of lottery tickets sold this week. For only the 12th time in the history of United States lotteries, a lottery jackpot has exceeded $600 million. The new high-water mark of $630 million for the current Mega Millions jackpot was achieved after no winning tickets were sold for Tuesday night's $555 million grand prize. The lump-sum cash payout value of Friday's Mega
Jul 20, 2022, 8:14 am - Lottery News

Mega Millions lottery jackpot highest in 18 monthsNews Story
$530 million jackpot features cash option of more than $300 million By Todd Northrop After 26 drawings without a jackpot winner, the multi-state Mega Millions lottery game now boasts a swelling jackpot of $530 million that could instantly put the winner among the wealthiest people on the planet. When nobody won Friday night's grand prize, the Mega Millions jackpot grew to its biggest amount since a $1.05 billion Mega Millions jackpot from the Jan. 22, 2021 drawing was won by a sing
Jul 16, 2022, 7:23 pm - Lottery News