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Mega Millions jackpot now at $640 million
[Update on Friday] The estimated jackpot for Friday's Mega Millions drawing has risen to $640 million, lottery officials said Friday.
[Posted at 1:57 p.m. ET Thursday] The estimated jackpot for Friday night's Mega Millions drawing rose Thursday to $540 million, extending what Mega Millions officials say already was going to be a world record for lottery jackpots.
Friday's jackpot initially was estimated at $476 million, and then $500 million, but stronger-than-anticipated sales nationwide have helped push up the figure, lottery officials said.
The previous world record for a single jackpot, according to Mega Millions officials, was that game's $390 million prize in a March 6, 2007, drawing. That jackpot was split by winners in Georgia and New Jersey.
The growing jackpot has drawn plenty of interest from would-be millionaires.
In Texas, one of the 42 states where Mega Millions is played, 482,763 standard $1 tickets - that is, tickets without the extra $1 Megaplier option - were sold from 11 a.m. to noon on Thursday, said Kelly Cripe, spokeswoman for the Texas Lottery Commission. In the same hour a day earlier, 143,605 tickets were told in Texas, Cripe said.
Mega Millions officials predict that $396 million in tickets will be sold nationwide from Wednesday through Friday's drawing, Cripe said. The estimate includes actual sales from Wednesday.
On Wednesday, lottery officials in Virginia estimated that the number of tickets sold in that state on Friday alone would be more than four times the 1.2 million tickets sold in Virginia on a Friday two weeks earlier, when the jackpot was $200 million.
"Sales are very, very strong in Virginia. It looks like we're seeing a lot more people who don't normally play want to get in the game," Virginia Lottery spokesman John Hagerty said Wednesday afternoon.
Friday's $540 million prize would be payable as an annuity over 26 years. If a winner prefers, he or she could choose a one-time, lump-sum payment, which in this case would be $389 million. Both figures are before taxes.
Friday's jackpot rolled over from Tuesday's drawing for a $363 million prize, which no one won. The prize has been building since January 24, when a Georgia woman won a $72 million Mega Millions drawing.
The biggest single-ticket win in the other nationwide lottery, Powerball, was in February 2006 when a ticket held by eight workers at a Nebraska food plant paid a $365 million jackpot.
Mega Millions is played in 42 states plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
A jackpot-winning ticket must match all five numbers drawn from a pot containing 56 balls and then match the Mega Ball, which is drawn from a pot containing 46 numbers. Odds of winning are almost 176 million to 1. Each regular ticket costs $1.
Jackpots start at $12 million and rise for subsequent drawings when jackpot-winning tickets aren't sold.
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I just bought $10 worth...can't win if you don't play.
Can't lose either. Lotteries are scams that top Vegas for swindling suckers.
Example: My "lucky" numbers are 1 2 3 4 5 6. They are as likely to win as your numbers. Good luck chumps!
so your theory, if I understand it correctly, is that if you don't play........then you can't win. Interesting.
I think II could retire on $540 million.
Thats absurd!
@@@a#sholes stop deleting my blogs they are no different,,,,, i would leave this country and go to switzerland set my girls up here in the us take care i immediate family and disappear for a while
It isn't much if you're Mitt Romney.
If I win I am donating all of my money to the republican party NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No!
Put that money back!
There are mothers and homeless that are buying these tickets! And the one that wins will most likely not do anything to contribute back to American society.
Stop forking over all of your life savings for this baloney when there is only one very rare winner people! Damn! How stupid can you be!
How, exactly, is this "robbing the poor" when they make a choice to spend their money on lottery tickets?
If $2 is your life savings then you've got a lot more problems than your desire to play the lottery.
Umm, last time I checked it's about personal choice. If a pregnant teenage mother with 4 small children wishes to play the lottery, she should have that right.
Calm down. It's a $2 ticket, not a life savings. Everyone knows the odds of winning are astronomical but so what? It's an entertainment expense–which sounds like something you sorely need.
Ummmmm..... It's a dollar.
Aren't you contributing to society when you buy the ticket? It's sorta a voluntary tax was my understanding....
Do you ever rent a movie, or buy a cup of coffee, or have cable/satellite TV? Aren't all of those things a waste of money too?
It's that last $40 million that makes all the difference.
The minute I win, I am off to Bahamas. IRS and other TAX Crooks can kiss my RICH behind many times.
The IRS will beat you to the money, so will your state and any other 'deserving' recipient.
Think of the TAXES taken out of that pot!
I would keep 50 million of it. Give some to my family, or maybe some to a charity. And on national t.v. burn the rest. That's right.
oooo i can feel the heat right now
And then the Secret Service would pay you a visit......................
I cashed out my 401k and sold my house and car and used all the money to buy tickets. I think I have a very good chance to make 50 to 1 on my investment here.
One safe bet with virtually every human who reads this: You'll lose.
Every human who reads this? What about the canines reading this? Or fish or whales or apes or bluebirds. You sir are prejudiced!
If you've got a dog or fish that you can prove has the ability to read, you're pretty much set as far as money is concerned.
If I win, maybe I will finally be able to afford health insurance!
If you win 540 million, and do not realize that you are self insured, then you and your money will be parted faster then any of the other strange spenders here. Although, i'm sure that was a failed attempt at humor
If I won I would buy out the Westboro baptist church and turn it into a gay bar
If there had been a "like" button, I would have pressed it =)
lmao I hope you win bro
That is the best idea – EVER. You can even put in a chapel next to the bar with a gay Elvis performing wedding ceremonies.
That is hilarious.
This comment just made my day.
ahahahahahahah that is such an awesome idea
LOL!!! Thanks for that. It made my day.
Haha I like that idea, I might have to steal it if I win.
We should all pitch in a few bucks and do that anyway!
I love it! Now I hope we both win!
I LOVE IT!!!
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this comment just made my day 100 time "more better"