One winning ticket sold for $1.08 billion Powerball jackpot
The winning Powerball ticket was purchased in Los Angeles. The grand prize was the third largest in the game's history since it started in 1992.
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The winning Powerball ticket was purchased in Los Angeles. The grand prize was the third largest in the game's history since it started in 1992.
As the jackpots for Powerball and Mega Millions soar, there's still a $1 million unclaimed lottery ticket in Minnesota. And time is running out to claim it.
If you're feeling lucky, now might be the time to buy a lottery ticket.
There has been no Mega Millions jackpot winner since April 18.
The Powerball jackpot for Wednesday night's drawing is estimated to be near $750 million due to higher-than-expected ticket sales.
The lucky combination of numbers drawn late Friday night were: 30, 43, 45, 46, 61 and gold Mega Ball 14.
The Mega Millions jackpot is $1.35 billion dollars--the second biggest in the game’s history.
One small piece of paper could be worth more than a billion dollars Tuesday night.
One small piece of paper could be worth more than a billion dollars Tuesday night.
Multi-State Lottery Association tweaked the Mega Millions lottery so it would generate large jackpots, one expert said.
There have been 24 drawings since the jackpot was last won on Oct. 14.
An estimated $785 million Mega Millions jackpot set for Tuesday night will give lottery players a chance to start the new year with a lucrative bang.
No ticket purchased for the lottery matched all six numbers drawn Friday night.
The last time a Mega Millions jackpot was won was Oct. 14, when holders of two tickets sold in California and Florida shared a $502 million pot of gold.
The single jackpot winner was sold in suburban Chicago, at a Speedway in Des Plaines.
The tickets were bought at gas stations or convenience stores in Forest Lake and in Fridley. There were 20 tickets in all that matched the first five numbers but not the multiplier.
The winning ticket for the second largest jackpot in lottery history was sold in Illinois according to the Illinois Lottery website.
The prize fund surpassed $1 billion this week, marking only the third time the jackpot has crossed that threshold in the game's two-decade history.
The winning numbers were 67, 45, 57, 36 and 13, with a Mega Ball of 14.
If you match all five numbers and the Mega Ball, you win the jackpot, currently estimated at $1.02 billion. Your odds of doing so, per the Minnesota Lottery, are 1 in 302,575,350.
The Mega Millions jackpot is now estimated at more than a billion dollars, so if you haven't already been playing, now may be the time to buy a ticket.
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A few people came close to winning it all in Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing.
Tuesday night’s Mega Millions jackpot is a whopping $830 million. As Jonah Kaplan reports, players in states other than Minnesota seem to always win big -- but Minnesotans can still dream.
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