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Hopeful lottery customers line up at Lucky Rudy’s on Monday, Jan. 9, 2023 in Rosenburg. This week’s MegaMillions drawing is over $1 billion.The name of the game is Mega Millions, so when the jackpot tops $1 billion, people take notice, says Muddassir Mohammed, a shift manager at Now & Forever, a Houston-based gas station and convenience store chain.
Despite the long odds of winning, estimated to be about 1 in 303 million, one of his customers even spent $2,000 on tickets, which cost $2 apiece. The lottery's jackpot rolled over and grew to an estimated $1.1 billion after no one won Friday's drawing. A single winner who chooses the cash option would receive $569 million, according to the lottery's website. Choosing to take your winnings in ever-larger annual payments, Mohammed explained, is probably the more prudent option. But he’d opt for the cash value.
Some lottery hopefuls made a special trip to Rosenberg gas station Lucky Rudy’s, which changed its name from Rudy’s Stop N Shop after a customer won $1 million on a $20 scratch-off ticket several years ago, store associate Mayra Zarate said.Texans spend big, travel far to get their Mega Millions ticket for billion-dollar jackpot
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