Mega millions for the first drawing with a new $ 5 ticket set

The Mega Millions lottery will draw on Tuesday evening on the first, as the players have initiated a new price tag for each ticket.

For the first time, the game group announced the new ticket price in October as part of a series of improvements that said that the opportunities of a jackpot will improve – although the chances remain extremely long.

The new probability of a jackpot victory is 1 to 290,472,336 compared to 1 of 302,575,350, the group announced in press releases about the changes on March 25.

The improved opportunities for a jackpot and winning a price are the removal of a gold -mega ball from the mix -from 25 mega balls up to 24 -said the play group.

Before the price increase, tickets each cost 2 US dollars.

“Beyond Big Jackpots told us the players 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 statement last month.

There were previously changes to the mega millions, most recently in response to Covid 19 pandemic.

In October 2017, the game doubled the price for tickets from 1 to 2 US dollars and increased the start jackpots of 15 to 40 million US dollars, which was developed for waves of jackpots.

Then the game was changed again in 2020 due to the slowdown of sales during the pandemic, which reduces the start -jackpot of $ 40 million to $ 20 million and a minimum mood of jackpot was eliminated. Instead, the climb was bound to ticket sales, so it still grows.

The new game scheme increases the start jackpot to 50 million US dollars.

The drawing on Tuesday, the first with the new 5 dollars tickets, is planned for 11 p.m. The estimated jackpot is 54 million US dollars.

CORRECTION: (April 8, 9:15 p.m. et) A previous version of this article when the new ticket price was announced. It was in October, not in March.