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Hang onto those stocking-stuffer lottery tickets.
The Mega Millions jackpot has surpassed $1 cardinal aft nary summons matched each six numbers drawn connected Christmas Eve. That means the estimated jackpot for Friday's drafting is $1.15 billion, perchance the fifth-largest jackpot successful the game's history.
“We cognize that galore radical volition apt person tickets to Friday’s drafting arsenic vacation gifts, and what a acquisition that would crook retired to beryllium if you ended up with a summons worthy a $1.15 cardinal jackpot,” Joshua Johnston, pb manager for the Mega Millions Consortium said successful a Wednesday statement.
The likelihood of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are 1 successful 302,575,350, portion the likelihood of winning immoderate Mega Millions prize are 1 successful 24, according to lottery officials.
Tickets for the crippled are sold successful 45 states, on with Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Mega Millions tickets are $2 a piece. Half of the proceeds from the merchantability of each summons remains successful the authorities wherever the summons was sold. Drawings are held astatine 11 p.m. Eastern Time connected Tuesdays and Fridays.
“I can’t deliberation of a amended mode to observe the holidays – whether Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, the Winter Solstice, oregon immoderate different mode radical take to observe the play – than by helping fulfill the dreams that travel with a prize similar this and prizes that volition beryllium won astatine each levels of the game," Johnston said.
