The New York Lottery is North America's largest and most profitable, contributing billions of dollars to help support education in New York State. Mega Millions drawings are streamed on Tuesday and Friday at 11:00 p.m. Powerball drawings are also streamed here on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. and Wednesdays and Saturdays at 8:15 p.m. WATCH: New York state lottery drawings live daily at 2:30 p.m. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Mega Millions is played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Thanks to those moves, nine of the top 10 largest lottery prizes have been won since 2017. Mega Millions has stuck with the two weekly drawings. In August 2021, Powerball also added a third weekly drawing, which enabled the jackpot to roll over and grow even more quickly as people had more chances to play, and lose. The idea was that by making jackpots less common, ticket revenue could build up week after week, creating giant prizes that would attract attention and pull in more players who had grown blasé about $100 million or $200 million top prizes. They made similar changes to Powerball in October 2015, worsening the odds from one in 175.2 million to one in 292.2 million. In the fall of 2017, lottery officials approved changes to Mega Millions that significantly lengthened the odds from one in 258.9 million to one in 302.6 million. The credit for the recent big prizes is actually due to math - and more difficult odds. RELATED: Here's what you could buy if you win 23, 2017 (one ticket, from Massachusetts)ĩ. The chances of winning a Mega Millions drawing are slim at one in nearly 303 million.Ĩ. The remaining 137 second-tier winning tickets take home the standard $10,000 prize. Of those, 27 included the optional Megaplier (available in most states with an extra $1 purchase), which was 2X on Friday night they are worth $20,000 each. Four were sold in New York, two in California, and one each in Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Texas.įor matching four white balls plus the Mega Ball, 164 tickets have a third-tier win. Fourteen tickets matched all five white balls to win the game's second-tier prize of $1 million. This 26-drawing jackpot run ends with a bang, with 7,072,832 winning tickets across all nine prize tiers in the January 13 drawing alone, including the jackpot-winning ticket. The jackpot had been rolling since it was last won on October 14, when a $502 million prize was shared by winning tickets in California and Florida. Tickets worth $1 million were sold in Manhattan, Long Island City, and other areas of New York. Hopefully it's a local who can sure put it to good use," Fred Cotreau said.Įven if you weren't that one winning ticket-holder, don't throw your tickets out just yet. Once I got the news from the lottery commission early this morning. Up in Maine, the owner of "Hometown Gas and Grill" in Lebanon is anxious to see who bought the lucky ticket from his store. The numbers drawn late Friday night were: 30, 43, 45, 46, 61 and gold Mega Ball 14. The prize is an estimated $1.35 billion ($724.6 million cash), which is the second-largest jackpot in the history of the game! NEW YORK (WABC) - A single ticket-holder in Maine will be celebrating a very happy new year after that ticket is the only one to match all six numbers drawn in Friday night's Mega Millions drawing. The prize is an estimated $1.35 billion ($724.6 million cash), which is the second-largest jackpot in the history of the game.
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