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Lottery gamers may have extra probabilities this week to win large payouts, with Tuesday’s Mega Thousands and thousands drawing and Wednesday’s Powerball drawing providing jackpots of round $1.1 billion and $865 million, respectively.
If somebody wins Tuesday’s drawing for Mega Thousands and thousands’ estimated $1.13 billion jackpot, it will be the fifth-largest prize within the historical past of the sport, in accordance with Mega Thousands and thousands. The jackpot rose above $1 billion after nobody gained the earlier drawing, on Friday. Tuesday’s drawing is scheduled for 11 p.m. ET.
A winner of Tuesday’s drawing may go for an estimated $537.5 million lump-sum fee as an alternative of getting the complete jackpot in annual funds. Each estimated figures are earlier than taxes.
The Mega Thousands and thousands jackpot has grown because it was final gained December 8 by two tickets offered in California. The file Mega Thousands and thousands jackpot was $1.602 billion, gained in Florida final August.
The chances of successful any prize in a Mega Thousands and thousands drawing are 1 in 24, and the percentages of successful the jackpot are 1 in 302.5 million, in accordance with the lottery.
Wednesday evening’s Powerball drawing, in the meantime, affords an estimated $865 million jackpot, which might be the fifth-largest within the sport’s historical past. A winner may go for the jackpot in annual funds or a lump-sum fee of an estimated $416.1 million – each earlier than taxes, in accordance with Powerball.
The Powerball jackpot was final gained on January 1 by a ticket in Michigan with an estimated $842.4 million prize.
Though nobody scored the jackpot in Monday’s Powerball drawing, it nonetheless yielded huge winners, with tickets offered in Florida and New York every successful $1 million prizes.
Thirty-six consecutive Powerball drawings have handed with no grand prize winner. The chances of successful any prize in a Powerball drawing are 1 in 24.9, and the percentages of snagging the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million, in accordance with the lottery.