2 Winning Mega Millions Tickets Sold In Minnesota
If you purchased a Mega Millions lottery ticket for Tuesday night's drawing, you might want to check your numbers before throwing it away.
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If you purchased a Mega Millions lottery ticket for Tuesday night's drawing, you might want to check your numbers before throwing it away.
>Instant-play lottery games won't be available on the Internet or Minnesota gas pumps as of November if legislation ready for final votes prevails.
If you buy a Mega Millions lottery ticket before Tuesday night's drawing, there's a chance you could wake up Wednesday and be $400 million richer.
Two lucky winning tickets were sold in Tuesday's near-record $636 million Mega Millions drawing: one at a tiny newsstand in Atlanta, and the other more than 2,000 miles away in California. The lucky Georgia ticket was sold at a Gateway Newsstand in Atlanta's affluent Buckhead area, Mega Millions Executive Director Paula Otto said.
The Mega Millions jackpot jumped Monday to $586 million after Friday's drawing produced no winning ticket. The jackpot now ranks as the second largest in Mega Millions history and fourth biggest overall in U.S. history. Here's a look at the top 10 record lottery jackpots in U.S. history.
Haven't finished your holiday shopping? Perhaps you should buy your relatives a lottery ticket. No one had the winning ticket, matching all six numbers, for Friday's Mega Millions jackpot drawing so the total continues to grow.
State lawmakers expressed concern Wednesday with the Minnesota Lottery's gradual push into Internet and other electronic ticket sales, saying they were worried about how far the virtual gambling could go.
The Minnesota State Lottery is looking beyond simple scratch off tickets to help fund a Vikings stadium.
The third and final share of last month's record Mega Millions jackpot will go to a retired couple from southern Illinois.
The record $640 million Mega Millions jackpot helped drive March's record-breaking lottery sales, the Minnesota State Lottery said.
The record Mega Millions jackpot generated $5.2 million for funds that will benefit Minnesota's schools, states services, game and natural resources, the Minnesota State Lottery says.
The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were:
Lottery ticket lines swelled Friday as players drawn by a record $640 million Mega Millions jackpot cast aside concerns about odds to take a chance at becoming an overnight millionaire.
Everybody knows it's the longest of long shots, but that doesn't stop lottery ticket holders from dreaming of what they would do with a $640 million jackpot. Friday night's Mega Millions drawing is the richest jackpot in world history.
Like a snowball barreling downhill, the Mega Millions Lottery continues to grow. By Wednesday afternoon, it had surpassing the $500 million mark.
A New York lottery official says a winning ticket for the Mega Millions lottery jackpot worth $319 million has been sold at a variety store in Albany, N.Y.
The odds of winning tonight's Mega Millions jackpot are one in 176 million.
