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A special drawing called Mega da Virada is held on New Year's Eve every year. The drawing is extremely popular among Brazilians because of its large jackpot. Regular Mega-Sena draws throughout the year put aside 5% of the proceeds for Mega da Virada. Record Mega da Virada jackpot is the R$541.9 million jackpot from the 2022 drawing.
€38.4 million (US$49.7 million) was the largest jackpot in the Netherlands draw of the Staatsloterij (State Lottery) in May 2013. €30,009,676 (US$31 million) was the largest jackpot in France 's SuperLoto, won in May 2006 by two tickets.
Accompanying the lottery is the betting game, an illegal form of lottery among the people, which uses the results of the jackpot of the legal traditional lottery as the prize-winning results. In Hanoi, the "agent" system of the betting game has developed along with traditional lottery stores and iced tea stalls, operating quite openly. [ 47 ]
In late 2009, MUSL and the Mega Millions consortium agreed to allow US jurisdictions then with either game to sell tickets for both beginning January 31, 2010. As of April 13, 2011, Mega Millions is available in 43 jurisdictions, with Powerball in 44; both games are available in 42 jurisdictions.
On February 20, 2003, Keno announced that starting on March 1, 2003, it would modify from 5 minutes apart of drawing to 4 minutes apart of drawing. Prizes and options vary. 101 games were drawn for Keno on December 22, 1995 from 12:00 p.m. to 8:25 p.m. which is the least, and 300 games were drawn for Keno from November 24, 2004 to April 29 ...
The Renné Senna case refers to the killing of former farmer Renné Senna (1953–2007), who won 52 million reais in the Mega-Sena in July 2005 and was murdered on January 7, 2007, with four shots in a bar in Rio Bonito (RJ). [2]
The odds of getting all six winning numbers, and thus the jackpot, are 1 in 5,245,786. Draws are held on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Mega Lotto 6/45 was introduced on May 17, 1997, and a more improved version of the 6/42 draw and is also introduced as a nationwide one. As the name states, a six-number combination is chosen from a lot of ...
The lottery's fourth statewide draw game, Cash Pop was introduced on November 1, 2022. Cash Pop is a drawing game based on the drawing of a single number from 1 to 15. Players can choose to wager on as many of the numbers as they wish for a given drawing, paying for each number covered.