Mega Millions Lottery is changing: ‘More billionaires jackpots are coming

Changes will come to the MEGA millions next month who increase the chances of a player to win him up great.

From April, the ticket prices will increase from $ 2 to $ 5, which has been the second adaptation for more than two decades.

The price change will speed up jackpots much faster and enable the company to increase the start -jackpot of 20 to 50 million US dollars, say experts.

“You will see a lot more billion dollar jackpots,” said Mike Silveira, chief of staff at jackpot.com, in an interview with Fox Business.

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To play mega millions, lottery players choose a total of six numbers: five different figures from 1 to 70, the white balls, and a number of 1 to 25, the gold mega ball. Players can also select Easy Pick/Quick Pick if the computer selects random numbers for you.

In addition, most states offer a mega stallion function to increase non-jackpot prices by 2, 3, 4 or 5 times. It currently costs an additional 1 USD per game.

Mega Millions Lottery Tickets will be exhibited on August 1, 2023 in San Anselmo, California. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / Getty Images)

At the moment, all players who choose a certain draw would share the same multiplier. For example, if the multiplier is 5x, all players who gain an amount as part of the advertised Jackpot amount would multiply their profits by 5, said Silveira.

In the new game, the multiplier is free of charge, can rise up to 10 times and be unique for each ticket purchased, he explained. For example, if someone buys two tickets, they may have a ticket with a 2x multiplier and another with a 10 -fold multiplier, added Silveira.

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There will also be no more prices about Break-even, which means that a player will receive more than the costs of what he paid for the ticket.

Silveira emphasized that the game with an improved probability of gaining large and faster growing jackpots will also attract a younger, more casual player base in the future.

Mega Millions Lottery Tickets are shown on a switch because the price on January 10, 2023 in Manhattan drew $ 1.1 billion in front of the multi-state lottery. (Reuters / Mike Segar / Reuters Photos)

“We expect more billion dollar jackpots than ever, which means that more billionaires and many other millionaires rise to the rise of the jackpot the important legacy of the support of great purposes where Mega Millions is played,” said Joshua Johnston, head of the Mega Millions Consortium.

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Mega Millions said the lottery game had already produced a record number of jackpot winning of more than 1 billion US dollars. Since the start in 2002, there have been six billion dollar jackpot winners. Since the last change in 2017, more than 1,200 players have become millionaires, an average of three millionaires per week.

It is not an impossible task, although the chances of winning are quite slim. The likelihood of winning the Mega -Million -Jackpot is 1 of 302 million. It is 1 to 292 million for the Powerball Jackpot.

Americans who, according to the latest data from the US Census Bureaus, spent 97.8 billion US dollars for tickets, have still not stopped these opportunities. While the states received a record sales of 97.8 billion US dollars this year, they paid prices of $ 65.2 billion and, according to Motley Fool, had the proceeds of $ 28.3 billion.