Heavy Sales Push Mega Millions Jackpot to $220 Million

Jun 28, 2004, 1:46 pm (5 comments)

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With the excitement growing in anticipation of Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing, lottery forecasters today revised the estimated jackpot upward to $220 million.

The adjusted jackpot shows how strong Mega Millions sales have been since Friday's drawing did not produce a jackpot winner.  That drawing did produce nearly 1.3 million winning tickets for prizes ranging from $2 to $175,000.  The estimated jackpot amount is based on sales in each of the eleven Mega Millions states since the last drawing.

This jackpot has been building since May 7, 2004, when Mega Millions had its most recent jackpot winner.  The jackpot has now rolled 14 times without a winner.  The odds of winning the jackpot are approximately one in 135 million.

Mega Millions' predecessor, the Big Game, made history in May of 2000 with the largest jackpot in North American history: $363 million.  In February of this year, retired truckdriver J. R. Triplett of Winchester, Virginia and his wife Peggy won the largest Mega Millions jackpot to date: $239 million.

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bobo7703

  300 million

Todd's avatarTodd

HOW FUNNY - the "official" site hasn't updated the jackpot on their site, even though the change happened early this afternoon.  They are pitiful!

fxdwg's avatarfxdwg

125 million

markp1950

> I know a fellow who only plays when it is

high



$10 Mil ain't high??? :-)



>and then when he does not win he goes into a

> huge tailspin and is depressed for two days

> after drawing.



That's me, but only when somebody else wins... :-)

But then I figure what I could do with $10 Mil.... or $3 mil cash after taxes...



>it is only a game



But what I could do with the money...



> but play sensibly



I do nothing sensibly!



MarkP

markp1950

I say, sign your ticket NOW...



It might be only a dollar ticket now, but it has a potential... If you lose it, or gets stolen, you have no rights....

I say also sign it heavy enough to leave an impression in the paper...



MarkP

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