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Depending on the game, a minimum of either two or three numbers(not counting a "bonus ball") must be matched for a winning ticket(A 2/5 match usually results in a free play for that game, or a "break-even" win; for the latter, the player wins back their stake on that particular five-number wager.).
Lottery Country Tickets Date Notes ¥570m Welfare Lottery (Union Lotto) China: 1 12 June 2012 Sold in Beijing [citation needed]; Asia's largest prize (€79.3m, US$87.3m) R$541.9m Mega-Sena Brazil: 5 31 December 2022 Five winners: Sold in Florestal (MG), Arroio do Sal (RS), Santos (SP), São José da Bela Vista (SP) and one ticket online.
A lottery is a form of gambling which involves selling numbered tickets and giving prizes to the holders of numbers drawn at random. Lotteries are outlawed by some governments, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing their own national (state) lottery.
An Iowa Lottery player won a jackpot prize — one much larger than even he realized. Rogelio Almanza, a 70-year-old man from Rock Island, Illinois, said he purchased a $50,000 Super Crossword ...
In a typical 6/49 game, each player chooses six distinct numbers from a range of 1–49. If the six numbers on a ticket match the numbers drawn by the lottery, the ticket holder is a jackpot winner—regardless of the order of the numbers. The probability of this happening is 1 in 13,983,816.
Powerball, Mega Millions history: Top 10 U.S. lottery drawing jackpot results Here are the nation's all-time top 10 Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots, according to powerball.com : $2.04 billion ...
She won $50 on one ticket and used some of the money to buy three more tickets. The first two weren’t winners, but the third hit the grand prize in the “$50,000 Cash” game, lottery officials ...
Jerry saw that you had a 1-in-54 chance to pick three out of the six numbers in a drawing, winning $5, and a 1-in-1,500 chance to pick four numbers, winning $100. What he now realized, doing some mental arithmetic, was that a player who waited until the roll-down stood to win more than he lost, on average, as long as no player that week picked ...