The Mega Millions jackpot on Friday night will surpass the astounding $1 billion mark. The odds of winning a Mega Millions jackpot are 1 in 303 million, according to lottery officials.
The Mega Millions jackpot on Friday night will surpass the astounding $1 billion mark.
It will be the third time in Mega Millions 20-year history that the $1 billion plateau is reached, according to lottery officials. Friday night’s drawing will be the 13th drawing in the current run which began back on April 19, and the new grand prize is an estimated $1.025 billion .“We look with anticipation on the growing jackpot,” said Ohio Lottery Director Pat McDonald, current lead director of the Mega Millions Consortium, in a news release.
Friday’s prize, as currently estimated, is just shy of the $1.050 billion jackpot won in Michigan on January 22, 2021. With unprecedented traffic after the drawing – more than any in the history of megamillions.com – the Mega Millions website was down for more than two hours on Tuesday night, officials said.. Last year, a 21,476-square-foot home in Aspen, with 11 bedrooms, 13 bathrooms and four half-baths, sitting on over four-acres of land, sold for a cool $72.5 million.
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