Officials with Mega Millions announced that starting Tuesday, April 8th, tickets would more than double in price; going from $2 to $5 a ticket.
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This week’s jackpots have ballooned to extraordinary amounts for both the Mega Millions and Powerball.
The MegaMillions lottery numbers from Friday night's drawing are:
The Mega Millions prize fund surpassed $1 billion this week, marking only the third time the jackpot has crossed this threshold in the lottery game's two-decade-long history.
A giant Mega Millions lottery jackpot ballooned to $1.02 billion after no one matched all six numbers Tuesday night and won the top prize.
Is $810 million worth $2? That’s a good question, given it costs $2 to buy a Mega Millions lottery ticket that could pay off with an estimated $810 million prize - the nation's fourth-largest jackpot - after the game’s next drawing Tuesday night.
FILE - A lottery ticket vending machine sits a convenience store, July 21, 2022, in Northbrook, Ill. The next Mega Millions drawing is Tuesday…
While the growing expansion of casinos and state-sanctioned sports betting steal the spotlight, state lotteries have nearly doubled in size over the past two decades, driving a multibillion-dollar wealth transfer from low-income U.S. communities to powerful multinational companies.