Mega Millions and Powerball, the two main national lotteries, are increasing their purses, becoming more attractive to jackpot hopefuls.
While Mega Millions reaches $380 million dollars, the Powerball will have a purse of $206 million dollars for this Monday, October 3.
On Friday, Mega Millions did not have a jackpot winner, so its purse accumulated several million.
“The Mega Millions jackpot keeps rolling forward! No ticket matched all six numbers drawn on Friday night: the white balls 16, 26, 37, 40 and 51, plus the Golden Mega Ball 6, so the grand prize is an estimated $ 380 million ($198.4 million in cash) for the next draw on Tuesday, October 4,” he said. that lottery.
For the recent draw, 738,193 winning tickets were sold on all prize tiers for the September 30 drawing, but top winners took home $37,000 dollars each.
“Since the jackpot was last won on July 29, there have been more of 10.3 million winning tickets across all prize levels, including 18 worth $1 million or more,” the Lottery said.
The 12 States where there have been lucky ones are Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin.
Meanwhile, Powerball does not has had big winners since August 3, when a player from Pennsylvania took home $206.9 million dollars.
The total amount that the lucky person took was $122.3 million in cash, less the applicable withholding.