The lottery will now have to change its marketing because of this drawing: (Pre-record radio commercials with jackpot numbers stop at $500 million, billboards only go to $999 million) they will eventually have to change those because of this jackpot so million can change to billion.Do You Need the Megaplier to Win the Jackpot? If there is no winner following tonight's drawing, the next jackpot will be nearly $1 billion The Lottery and its retailers are in contact to make sure they don't run out of paper in their machinesĪbout 90% of numbers have been played, so there's a 90% chance someone will win tonight This one could take longer because of the size of the numbersīusiest sales hours will be between 4-7pm today The Iowa Lottery usually knows within the hour whether they have a jackpot winner.
The jackpot amount estimate is conservative and will probably end up being even higher it is not expected to be raised again until the drawing takes place after ticket sales stop The $640 million jackpot is nearly double the previous record jackpot MegaMillion sales have doubled in Iowa each day since the drawing on Tuesday night You will begin to receive our Daily News updates. Add your contacts.Īnnuity option: $24.6 million per year ($6.15 million federal withholding & $1.23 million state taxes) makes annual payment $17.22 million "Just buy a ticket, sit back and see if fate points a finger at you for that day."Ĭash option: $462 million ($115.5 million federal withholding & $23.1 million state taxes) makes lump sum payment $323.4 million cash "When people ask me, I just tell them that the odds of a lottery game make it a game of fate," said Chuck Strutt, executive director of the Urbandale, Iowa-based Multi-State Lottery Association that oversees the Mega Millions, Powerball and other lotteries.
Lottery officials are happy to have Friday's record Mega Millions jackpot fueling ticket sales, but even they caution against overspending. averages, you're about 8,000 times more likely to be murdered than to win the lottery, and about 20,000 times more likely to die in a car crash than hit the lucky numbers, Catalano said. "Of course, if you buy 50 tickets, you've equalized your chances of winning the jackpot with getting struck by lightning."īased on other U.S. "You are about 50 times as likely to get struck by lightning as to win the lottery, based on the 90 people a year getting struck by lightning," Catalano said. Mike Catalano, chairman of the mathematics department at Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell, S.D., concedes the math is clear: The more tickets you buy, the better chances you have of winning.
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