Mega Millions Jackpot Winner: American multi-jurisdictional lottery game, Mega Million is one of the largest lottery games in the world and Mega Million is offered in about 45 states in the US. Mega Millions drawing started in the year 2002 and is continuing till today. The drawings are usually held at the studios of WSB-TV in Atlanta, Georgia and many people buy lottery tickets around America. With the drawings held on every Tuesday and Friday at 11:00 pm ET, those who buy the tickets wish to win the jackpot and each ticket costs $2.00 per play.
For selecting the winners, from the set of balls numbered one to seventy, five white balls are drawn and one gold Mega Ball from a set of balls numbered 1 to 25 is drawn. For winning, the numbers on one row of the ticket taken must match the numbers of the balls drawn on the particular date. Overall, the chance of winning a prize in Mega Million is 1 in 24, while there are nine different ways to win a prize, ranging from dollar 2 to the jackpot, and in case, if none wins the jackpot, the money from that date is added to the jackpot for the coming drawing. The same thing happened today. None of the tickets matched with the draw numbers which led to the Mega Million website crash for more than two hours on Tuesday night and there was no winner announced. Due to the traffic, the website crashed which led to the soar in the prize amount.
The next Mega Million Jackpot is set for Friday Night and the amount will grow to an estimate of $1.02 billion with $ 602.5 million as the cash option. Many people were searching to see whether their ticket won the Lottery, The Big Jackpot but was disappointed since the website crashed.
This is also good news for everyone as they have the chance of winning a huge amount of billion dollars, which is an only third-time occurrence in 20 year span in the Mega Million history, and as the Jackpot is going up to the tune of just over the billion dollars. Due to this, The Mega Million mania is sweeping the country, the website is crashing for a few hours since none had yet claimed the top prize in the draw.
For Tuesday night’s drawing, the winning numbers were 7, 29, 60, 63, and 66 with the Mega Ball was 15 and the Megaplier was 3X and no one’s ticket matched all the said numbers. This led to the soar up of the Jackpot amount to more than one billion dollars and all eyes are set on Friday Night, 29th July’s draw. This Mega Million is being called Mega Billion are over the world and whoever wins this jackpot will surely be a Jackpot winner on the whole.
