And the odds are so long that it’s certainly not worth spending money you’ll miss for more tickets, experts warn. Your odds of winning are only slightly improved by buying more than one ticket. The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350. The highest Mega Millions jackpot, won in 2018, was more than $1.5 billion. Since then, there have been 28 consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner. The last winner took home $20 million in April. The current Mega Millions jackpot is shaping up to be the fifth highest in Mega Millions history, with a one-time cash prize estimated at $464 million. jackpot was a $2.04 billion Powerball prize won in November 2022. California lottery officials haven’t announced a winner for that jackpot, the sixth-largest in U.S. lottery history and follows a $1.08 billion Powerball prize won by a player July 19 in Los Angeles. The $910 million prize is one of the largest in U.S. Customers are buying $60 to $100 worth of tickets, Whitsitt said. Regeina Whitsitt, a lottery clerk for RED X Grocery Store in the Missouri city of Riverside near the border of Kansas, said she’s sold tickets to a number of new players trying to win the $910 million jackpot. (AP) - The Mega Millions lottery jackpot is approaching $1 billion ahead of Friday’s drawing, driving first-time buyers and other hopefuls to stock up on tickets.
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