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Dec 23, 2003, 11:47 pm - Todd - Jackpot Games Forum

MEGA MILLIONS JACKPOT $1 BILLION FOR TONIGHT'S DRAWINGNews Story
By Todd Northrop Lottery officials have just announced that the jackpot for tonight's Mega Millions drawing has been raised to $1 billion, marking just the third time in history that a lottery jackpot has reached that monumental level. The Mega Millions jackpot has grown since Sep. 18 and has rolled a record 36 times, starting at $20 million. The lump-sum cash option now stands at $739.6 million ranking as the third-largest cash option of all time. Mega Millions offers two jackpot pa
Jan 22, 2021, 12:09 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Flurry of Mega Millions lottery sales prompts officials to raise jackpot estimateNews Story
By Todd Northrop A rush of lottery ticket sales for the $600 million Mega Millions jackpot has prompted lottery officials to revise their estimate for the Tuesday night drawing to $615 million. The all-important lump-sum cash value is now estimated to be a staggering $451.8 million. Tuesday's drawing will be the 34th since Mega Millions had a winner. The current jackpot run-up started on Sept. 18 as a $20 million grand prize. Lottery players seeking to check the winning numbers Tuesd
Jan 11, 2021, 12:45 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Mega Millions lottery jackpot increased to $520 million on strong salesNews Story
By Kate Northrop Lottery officials have just announced that the jackpot for tonight's Mega Millions drawing has been raised from $510 million to $520 million, making this week's Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots just $10 million shy of a combined $1 billion. The Mega Millions jackpot has grown since Sep. 18 and has rolled 32 times, starting at $20 million. Mega Millions offers two jackpot payment options: the $520 million annuity prize paid out as one immediate payment followed by 29
Jan 8, 2021, 12:31 pm - Todd - Lottery News

$970 MILLION: Mega Millions ticket-buying frenzy forces new jackpot estimateNews Story
Closing in on $1 Billion By Todd Northrop Across the United States, lottery tickets are being sold at a frantic pace that the state lotteries are struggling to keep up with. Most of those sales are for the multi-state Mega Millions lottery game, which features a jackpot reaching into stratospheric heights only seen once before in world history and a lump-sum cash value worth more than a half-billion dollars. Just a day after the jackpot was raised to $900 million, the state lotteries
Oct 18, 2018, 12:40 pm - Todd - Lottery News

$521 MILLION: Mega Millions jackpot raised due to surging salesNews Story
By Todd Northrop A rush of ticket sales for the half-billion-dollar Mega Millions jackpot has prompted lottery officials to revise their estimate for the Friday night drawing to $521 million. The all-important lump-sum cash value is now estimated to be a staggering $317.2 million. Friday's drawing will be the 24th since Mega Millions had a winner. The current jackpot run-up started on Jan. 9 as a $40 million grand prize. According to the Maryland Lottery, if nobody wins the Friday ja
Mar 30, 2018, 12:25 pm - Todd - Lottery News

$454 million jackpot driving Mega Million ticket salesNews Story
By Todd Northrop With strong sales around the country, the estimated jackpot for Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing has been raised to $454 million, with a lump-sum cash option of $319 million cash. It's the third largest jackpot in Mega Millions history and the seventh-largest jackpot ever seen in US lottery history. The jackpot has been growing since it was last won on March 8 by Michael Burkett in Washington, who received a $157 million prize. The only other jackpot won this ye
Jul 5, 2016, 3:18 pm - Todd - Lottery News

$310 MILLION: largest Mega Millions jackpot in 19 monthsNews Story
16th-largest U.S. cash value jackpot of all time By Todd Northrop The multi-state Mega Millions lottery game continued its months-long climb Tuesday night, and has finally breached the $300-million mark. After nobody won Tuesday night's grand prize, the Mega Millions jackpot grew to an estimated $310 million the largest since a $326 million Mega Millions jackpot was won by a retired New York principal on Nov. 4, 2014. (See Retired NY principal claims $326M lottery jackpot, Lottery Post,
Jun 16, 2016, 8:58 am - Todd - Lottery News

One New Jersey ticket is sole winner of $1.13 billion Mega Millions jackpotNews Story
Largest lottery jackpot ever won in the Garden State Updated with retailer that sold the winning ticket By Todd Northrop After a run of 30 drawings without a jackpot winner, the 31st drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions game produced a single $1.13 billion winner last night when one lottery ticket sold in New Jersey matched all five numbers plus the Mega Ball. It was the 10th time a lottery jackpot had grown to more than $1 billion, and the ninth time a single ticket won $1
Mar 27, 2024, 7:18 am - Todd - Lottery News

$1.1 BILLION: Mega Millions jackpot now the eighth-largest in historyNews Story
Powerball jackpot simultaneously offers massive wealth By Todd Northrop For the eighth time in history a lottery jackpot has grown to more than a billion dollars. Last night nobody won the Mega Millions multi-state lottery drawing, triggering another jackpot rollover that created a Tuesday jackpot estimated at $1.1 billion with a cash value of $525.8 million. Based on past multi-state lottery jackpots, that estimate may get a lot bigger by the time the drawing kicks off Tuesday n
Mar 23, 2024, 8:31 am - Todd - Lottery News