Megamillions Lottery («MegaMillions»)
Online ticket sales: NOT carried out.
How to buy tickets: either be a US citizen, or being legally in the country (tourist visa, green card, etc.. d.). Possible Legal Ways to Play Lottery Outside America.
Ticket price (one position): $1.
Minimum jackpot: $40 000 000.
Current jackpot (clickable banner):
Maximum jackpot: not limited and accumulates from circulation to circulation.
Max Jackpot Drawn: 1 billion 537 million dollars won by a resident of South Carolina 23 October 2018 of the year.
Jackpot payout: approximately half of the prize is paid in cash immediately after formal procedures. If the winner wants to receive the full amount of the jackpot, then he must agree to pay the jackpot within 29 years. He will receive the first part of the jackpot shortly after the presentation and verification of the winning ticket, he will receive the remaining parts annually. Moreover, the payments are arranged in this way, that every year the payment will be on 5% more, than the previous. But most of the Megamillions lottery winners («Megamillions») prefer a one-time jackpot payment.
Probability of winning the jackpot: 1 to 258 890 850.
Probability of winning any prize: 1 to 14,71.
Drawing: held twice a week, on tuesday and friday.
Megamillions Lottery Rules («MegaMillions»):
The first lottery drum contains numbered balls from 1 to 75 inclusive. In the second – from 1 to 15 inclusive. Fall out of the first lottery drum 5 balls, from the second – 1 ball, which is called MegaBall. Before the drawing, the lottery ticket must be marked 5 main numbers and one additional, ie. MegaBall. Or use the "Quick Pick" option, by entrusting the filling of the ticket at random to the machine. The jackpot will be shared equally by all those, who will guess correctly 5 balls dropped and MegaBall number. If there is only one winner, then he will receive the jackpot according to the conditions described above.
Like the Powerball lottery, in "Megamillions" you can increase your winnings in 2, 3, 4 or 5 time, bought for $1 option "MegaPlier". And in this American lottery, the option does not apply to the jackpot.
Approximate paytable Megamillions (the probability of winning is shown in brackets):
- $1- guessed only MegaBall (1 to 21);
- $2 – guessed 1 ball and guessed MegaBall (1 to 56);
- $5 – guessed 2 ball and guessed MegaBall (1 to 473);
- $5 – guessed 3 ball and not guessed by MegaBall (1 to 766);
- $50 – guessed 3 ball and guessed MegaBall (1 to 10 720);
- $500 – guessed 4 ball and not guessed by MegaBall (1 to 52 835);
- $5 000 – guessed 4 ball and guessed MegaBall (1 to 739 688);
- $1 000 000 – guessed 5 balls and not guessed by MegaBall (1 to 18 492 204);
- Jackpot – guessed 5 balls and guessed MegaBall (1 to 258 890 850).
As you can see, the differences in the prizes of these American lotteries are, that payments to Megamillions are generally lower, than Powerball. Except for the combination only 4 guessed balls: in the first lottery you will receive $100, in the second – $500. And in case, if the "MegaPlier" option is the coefficient 5, then with guessed 5 balls and not guessed MegaBall you will get not a million, a 5 million dollars. In Powerball, for any value of PowerPlay, the payout will be 2 million dollars in that case, if you guessed right 5 balls.
History reference: in September 1996 the first draw of the lottery "The Big Game" – "Big game", and ticket sales began a few days before in six states. Initially, the drawing was held once a week, on Friday, but since February 1998 the second draw was added, on Tuesday. The game format was chosen for the lottery 5/50 + 1/25, but already in January 1999 MegaBall had to be guessed from 36 balls.
In May 2002 along with the next rule change "The Big Game" was renamed to "MegaMillions". Under the old brand, the maximum jackpot won was 363 million dollars. The first jackpot under the new brand was drawn in the same year, 24 December, and made 68 million dollars. All new states were plugged into the game, and joined in December 2003 Texas Introduces MegaPlier Option For Its Players For The First Time. After that, over time, in almost all states participating in the lottery, this option became available.
The format of the game in this American lottery continued to change.. In May 2002 he became 5/52 + 1/52, June 2005 – 5/56 + 1/46, and since October 2013 acquired the format, existing to this day – 5/75 + 1/15. In accordance with this, the probability of winning the jackpot also decreased..
