Mega Millions changes everything itself. Here is what is to know

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Mega Millions receives a revision of the price of the price of a ticket, since the Multi-State Lottery game aims to improve the opportunities of the players and output larger jackpots.

The lottery, which is available in 45 states of plus Washington, DC and the US Virgin Islands for last year, announced last year that there were changes in April.

The first drawing under the new format marks this evening, with the jackpot growing to 54 million US dollars.

Since the lottery started in 2002, seven winners have won billion-dollar jackpots in December when a residents of California won a price of $ 1.26 billion (or about $ 550 million in cash).

But “Beyond Big Jackpots, the players told us that they want larger non-jackpot prices, and that is exactly what this new game delivers,” said Joshua Johnston, head of the Mega Millions Consortium, in a press release.

Now the big game with drawings gets some major changes every Tuesday and Friday at 11 p.m.

The biggest change is the price of a ticket that now costs 5 US dollars -a big jump of 2 US dollars. This is only the second increase in price in the 23 years of the game after 2017 When the price of 1 USD doubled to 2 US dollars.

Although it is a strong increase, Mega Millions said that the higher ticket price will lead to larger start jackpots and faster growing prices. The lottery assumes that the average jackpot will be more than 800 million US dollars, much higher than the current average of $ 450 million.

For the winners of the lower payment, there will be no more “Breakeven prices” what means that each winning ticket is more than the cost of a $ 5 ticket.

The means that players who have only won only 2 US dollars can now win between 10 and 50 US dollars as part of the revised format. In addition, people who won 500 US dollars in the old game can now win significantly more money in the new version, which was between 1,000 and 5,000 US dollars.

Despite the powerful price increase, Akshay Khanna, CEO from Jackpot.com, who sells Mega Millions tickets in seven states, told CNN that the customers of the lottery game often spend more than 5 US dollars when buying tickets.

“While some customers may be surprised at first, we will believe that they recognize the additional advantages that enables this price increase,” said Khanna.

“This differs significantly from a U -Bahn tariff hike in which you pay more for the same trip,” he added. “With this mega million price increase, players get improved opportunities in addition to larger and faster jackpots.”

Changes to the game and better chances

It is not just ticket prices that receive an overhaul. Mega Millions optimizes the game itself.

The game removes a golden “mega ball” from the draw, which is slightly improved The chances of winning a price of a 1 of 24 chance of 1 to 23. The overall chances of winning the entire Mega millions -Jackpot also increases from 1 to 302.6 million to 1 to 290.5 million.

The lottery also eliminates some add-ons. This includes the “megaplier”, a 1 dollar add-on that increases the payments without a jackpot and is only available in some countries. “Just the Jackpot”, a 3-dollar ticket that receives two games to win the overall jackpot, is also eliminated.

All of these modifications will be a net positive for the game, forecasts Khanna.

“The larger start jackpots should put on more players,” he said, “ultimately increases the price amount faster to hire them.”