Soon after no 1 bought a winning ticket in the drawing this past Tuesday, the Mega Millions jackpot rose to an estimated $940 million—the sixth-biggest jackpot in U.S. history. That’s the value of the biggest lottery jackpot won in the U.S., a Powerball draw claimed by a single winner in California in November. Ahead of that, the largest lotter

The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.two million, according to a statement from Powerball. The biggest prize in Powerball history, sold in January 2016, was $1.586 billion and was shared by three winners in California, Florida and Tennessee. The winning numbers in Wednesday night's estimated $1.two billion jackpot have been two, 11, 22, 35

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They had been sold in Arizona, Mississippi and South Dakota. Anticipation more than the record-setting lottery drawing had grown as the jackpot ballooned for weeks. Doyle chose to acquire his prize in the kind of a a single-time payment of $650,000 and claimed his prize on Jan. 12 from Massachusetts State Lottery headquarters. The S & S store will