But the titanic jackpots have returned the lottery games to the front pages. Enthusiasm is back, many people feeling it’s time for a little bit of good fortune after the coronavirus year.<\/p>\n
Though the main focus of the lottery games are their jackpots, each draw delivers life-changing wins.<\/p>\n
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During last night’s Mega Millions, nine people won at least $1 million by matching all five white balls. And one of those doubled his prize by adding on the $1 Megaplier option.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
There were 116 winners who matched four white balls, plus the Mega Ball, for $10,000. Twenty others doubled their win for $20,000.<\/p>\n
Powerball’s January 9 draw delivered two lucky individuals $1 million each after they matched all five white balls. Fifty others won $50,000 for matching the four white balls and Powerball. Eighteen additional tickets doubled that win to $100,000 for purchasing the $1 Power Play add-on.<\/p>\n
Approaching Records<\/b><\/h2>\n
If Mega Millions isn’t won when it’s drawn on Friday, January 15, the lottery will climb the record leaderboard.<\/p>\n
Top 5 Largest US Lottery Jackpots<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- $1.586 billion — Powerball — January 2016<\/li>\n
- $1.537 billion — Mega Millions — October 2018<\/li>\n
- $768.4 million — Powerball — March 2019<\/li>\n
- $758.7 million — Powerball — August 2017<\/li>\n
- $750 million (est.) — Mega Millions — January 2021<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With no Mega Millions jackpot winners Tuesday night, the interstate lottery game rolls over to an estimated $750 million. It’s now the fifth-largest jackpot in US history, and the game’s second all-time largest prize pool. The January 12 Mega Millions drawing offered up the eighth-largest jackpot. But no ticket correctly picked the winning numbers of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":161162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,13699],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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