Mega Millions jackpot soars to its greatest ever December complete at $740m | EUROtoday

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The Mega Millions lottery has posted its greatest ever December jackpot, with $740 million up for grabs.

The complete is the eighth-biggest within the sport’s historical past, and comes as a consequence of no ticket matching all six numbers drawn final Friday evening.

The subsequent largest December jackpot for this lottery was in 2013, when it hit $648 million earlier than it was received by a number of folks in California and Georgia.

Of course, the percentages of profitable the present jackpot are nearly comically small: one in 302,575,350, in accordance with lottery organizers.

“Mega Millions is the only lottery game that has produced six jackpots greater than $1 billion. All were won in different states – South Carolina was the first in 2018, followed by Michigan in 2021, Illinois in 2022, Maine in early 2023, Florida last August and New Jersey in March,” mentioned the organizers.

The general document was reached final August, when one particular person from Florida received a jackpot totalling $1.6 billion.

But this quantity was not the most important American lottery win of all time. That was the record-breaking $2 billion prize received by Edwin Castro of California in February 2023.

Castro, who purchased his ticket at a fuel station in Altadena within the mountains above Los Angeles, beat the percentages of 292,000,000-to-one to win the prize, and helped increase, by taking part in the lottery, a likewise record-breaking $156 million for California’s public faculty system.

Castro declined to attend the information convention in his honor and requested to stay non-public, solely releasing a press release saying that he had been educated in California public colleges and was pleased to see them get extra funding.