Powerball and Mega Millions jackpot tops $1.9bn ahead of today’s draw

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The Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots have a mixed whole of $1.9bn going into this week’s lottery attracts, each of which have totals so excessive they’re making historical past.

The Powerball jackpot stands at an estimated whopping $800m with a money choice lump sum of $384.8m, making it the sixth-largest prize in its historical past.

The jackpot is “quickly climbing the rankings as one of the game’s largest”, Powerball stated in an announcement ahead of the draw scheduled for Monday evening.

Meanwhile, Mega Millions has surpassed its personal title, with a huge estimated jackpot whole of $1.1bn and a money choice of $525.8m, making it the fifth largest jackpot in Mega Millions historical past.

The draw for this unbelievable prize will happen on Tuesday.

Powerball

The jackpot has not been received in 35 consecutive drawings. The final particular person to win was a ticket holder in Michigan, who walked away with a prize value $842.4m on New Year’s Day 2024.

On Saturday’s drawing, 5 ticket-holders received $1m prizes after matching all 5 white balls, and 14 tickets additionally claimed $100,000 prizes.

If you wish to be in with an opportunity of successful a staggering quantity of cash, tickets for Powerball are being bought throughout 45 states within the US, most of which value $2 per play.

Players in Washington, DC, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands also can buy tickets.

If a participant chooses, they’ll add “Power Play”, which, for an additional greenback, multiplies non-jackpot prizes by 2, 3, 4, 5, and even 10 instances.

The multiplier is chosen randomly earlier than every drawing, however the 10x multiplier is barely in play if the jackpot annuity is $150m or much less.

According to Powerball, the probabilities of successful the jackpot are one in 292.2 million, whereas the probabilities of successful some kind of prize, albeit small, is 1 in 24.9.

If somebody wins Powerball’s jackpot on Monday and chooses the annuitised prize of $800m, they’ll obtain one instant cost, adopted by 29 annual funds that may enhance by 5 per cent every year.

Powerball drawings are broadcast stay each Monday, Wednesday and Saturday from the Florida Lottery draw studio in Tallahassee.

The largest-ever Powerball jackpot received stands at $2.04bn, which was claimed in November 2022 by a Californian.

This is adopted by an enormous $1.7bn received, additionally in California, in October 2023, and $1.5bn that was taken dwelling between three totally different ticket holders in 2016.

Mega Millions

This is the sixth time in lower than six years that the Mega Millions jackpot has topped $1bn.

Mega Millions has now gone 30 drawings with out a jackpot win, so the large prize is now estimated at $1.1bn, which may very well be swept up on the subsequent drawing on Tuesday.

“Lottery fever continues to spread throughout the country,” stated Gretchen Corbin, the lead director of the Mega Millions Consortium, additionally the president and CEO of the Georgia Lottery, in a assertion.

“Large jackpots provide entertainment and winnings for our players nationwide while contributing to the beneficiary programs funded by each lottery,” she added.

“We appreciate our players and dedicated retailers, and we encourage everyone to play responsibly.”

On the final drawing, one particular person in Virginia received $3m after matching 5 white balls and included the Megaplier, which was 3X on Friday evening.

While the jackpot has not been received since 8 December 2023, there have been greater than 26.2 million successful tickets throughout all prize tiers since then.

This consists of 43 ticket holders who received second-tier prizes of $1m or extra all through the nation.

The largest Mega Millions jackpot was received in Florida in August 2023, standing at $1.602bn.

Following that, the second largest prize taken dwelling was $1.5bn in 2018 in South Carolina, and third place stands at $1.3bn in Maine.

Like the Powerball, tickets value $2 every and are bought in 45 states, Washington, DC, and the US Virgin Islands.

In most areas, individuals even have the choice so as to add the “Megaplier” for an additional greenback to multiply their non-jackpot prizes.

Drawings happen at 11pm ET on Tuesdays and Fridays in Atlanta, Georgia.

The odds of successful the jackpot are one in 302,575,350, however you could possibly fare higher of successful any Mega Millions prize, which stands at one in 24.