Megabucks $29.7M winning ticket sold in Holyoke
The Megabucks jackpot worth $29.7M was won on a ticket sold in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
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The Megabucks jackpot worth $29.7M was won on a ticket sold in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
A single ticket sold in Illinois won the biggest Powerball jackpot of the year, $1.04 billion, in Wednesday night's drawing, the game says.
No winning tickets were sold for Monday night's $905 million Powerball jackpot, so the estimated grand prize for Wednesday's drawing will be at least $1 billion.
The total is also the eighth-largest Powerball jackpot in the game's history.
"Mass Lottery Online" debuted on Monday.
The Megabucks jackpot is up to $17.4 million for Monday's drawing - the largest for the Massachusetts Lottery game since 1986.
The RMV will reveal winners of the low number lottery for the Massachusetts 250 commemorative plates.
Mega Millions sales are down 24% in Massachusetts in the last year. The Lottery blames lower-than-expected jackpots.
Mega Millions sales have dropped in Massachusetts, and the Lottery is blaming a lack of big jackpots.
A single winning ticket was sold for Powerball's Christmas Eve jackpot of $1.817 billion, in Arkansas. It was the second-largest U.S. lottery jackpot ever won.
Here are the winning numbers for the $1.7 billion Powerball jackpot.
With no winner in Monday's drawing, the Powerball jackpot on Christmas Eve will be at least an estimated $1.7 billion.
The Powerball jackpot grew to an estimated $1.6 billion after no tickets matched all six winning numbers at Saturday night's drawing. It's the fifth-largest prize among U.S. lottery jackpots.
The Powerball jackpot leaped to an estimated $1.5 billion after no one won Wednesday night's pot of gold of approximately $1.25 billion.
The $1 billion jackpot is the seventh-largest in the game's history.
Saturday's jackpot had an total cash value of $820.6 million, Powerball said.
The Powerball jackpot was the second-largest in U.S. lottery history. Here's a look at some numbers behind the game.
The estimated Powerball jackpot for Saturday night's drawing soared to an estimated $1.8 billion, the second-biggest ever, after no one won Wednesday's $1.4 billion drawing.
Saturday's Powerball jackpot has an estimated cash value of $453.1 million.
The Powerball jackpot is now an estimated $750 million for Monday night's drawing, making it the 10th-largest jackpot in Powerball game history.
A Fitchburg, Massachusetts man mistakenly bought two tickets for the same Powerball drawing and won $2 million.
A woman in western Massachusetts won a $100,000 lottery prize after finding her ticket in a junk drawer just before it was about to expire.
A woman in western Massachusetts won a $100,000 lottery prize after finding her ticket in a junk drawer just before it was about to expire.
Mega Millions has rolled out several changes, including new ticket prices, jackpots and an increase in the odds of winning.
The Mega Millions jackpot winner could either take the cash payout of $549.7 million or the $1.22 billion annuity paid out over 30 years.
