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Jun 26, 2006, 2:12 pm (2 comments)
Biggest N.Y. Lotto jackpot in a year; third-largest in the world
There was no first prize winner in Saturday night's New York Lotto drawing, causing the jackpot to rollover to $45 million for Wednesday evening's drawing.
The jackpot is currently the third-largest lottery jackpot in the world, and the largest New York Lotto jackpot since a $56 million jackpot was won on July 30, 2005.
The winning Lotto numbers for Saturday, June 24, 2006 were 16-20-30-31-35-45, and the Bonus number was 26.
There were no second-prize winners, matching five numbers plus the bonus number, but there were 35 third-prize winners, who matched five numbers for $1,734.00 each.
Also, there were 2,241 fourth-prize winners, matching four numbers for $28.00 each, and there were 57,938 fifth-prize winners, matching three numbers for $1.00 each.
The next New York Lotto drawing is on Wednesday, June 28, 2006. The jackpot will be $45 million.
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That's not a bad jackpot size. I wonder how high it will get.
That's just fantastic. Wouldn't it be great if it paid 50%? Just imagine, $6 for 3 numbers in NY Lotto. It would be possible with just a 50% payout.
But back to the jackpot, for the odds you can't do much better. After taxes the cash option would be about $15 million, compare that the the odds of about one 1 in 22 million.