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For example, the "advertised" second prize in Mega Millions is $1,000,000; but in California the record amount was set for a $3.9 million sold in Hacienda Heights in 2023 as part of the roll for a $1.1 billion jackpot. [31] The second prize pool within California frequently rolls; it is, in effect, a "secondary jackpot".
The lists do not include "4+1" games, such as Florida's Lucky Money, where all five numbers must be matched to win the top prize, but are drawn from two number fields(A similar game, Montana's "Big Sky Bonus", is actually a "four-number" game; the double matrix is 4/31 + 1/16(previously was 4/28 + 1/17). Matching all four "regular" numbers wins ...
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The 2011 top prize of €720 million [citation needed] was paid out as €4 million [86] (US$5.2 million) to each of the 180 tickets. [ citation needed ] In 2012, the first prize was €720 million (then US$941.8 million; $1.215 billion in 2022 dollars), [ citation needed ] out of a total prize pool of €2.52 billion (US$3.297 billion; $4.255 ...
On average, lottery officials claim it can take six to eight weeks for a winner to be paid out. But it could take longer, as the California State Lottery processes more than 10,000 claims per month.
The December 29, 2010, drawing of the multi-state lottery game Hot Lotto featured an advertised top prize of US$16.5 million. [21] On November 9, 2011, Philip Johnston, a resident of Quebec City, Canada, [5] phoned the Iowa Lottery to claim a ticket that had won the jackpot; stating he was too sick to claim the prize in person, he provided a 15-digit code that verified the winning ticket.
Powerball ticket. After a nearly three-month stretch with no one matching all six numbers, we finally have a winner of the record-setting $1.73 billion Powerball jackpot.
These "5+1" games also require all six numbers to be matched for the top prize, but the use of a separate field for the last number lengthens the odds considerably. In a variant of the six-number game, such as Pennsylvania's Match 6 , the player receives three sets of six numbers for each play; the sales terminal automatically generates two of ...