Reuters
UK Newswire
Friday 30 March 2012
World record
$540,000,000
lottery drawing tonight!
by David Beasley
ATLANTA, GEORGIA -- Buzz is building around the largest lottery jackpot in world history -- at least $540,000,000 -- ahead of the Mega Millions drawing taking place in Atlanta late Friday night.
Buyers have lined up this week in 42 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands to purchase $1 tickets for the Mega Millions lottery.
In most participating states, tickets will be on sale Friday until 22:45 EST, lottery officials said.
The drawing will be held in Atlanta at 23:00 EST.
Odds of winning the entire jackpot are 175,000,000-to-1, said Margaret DeFrancisco, president and chief executive of the Georgia Lottery Corporation.
If a single ticket matches all 6 winning numbers, the player would receive either a one-time payment of $389,000,000 or the full jackpot in 26 annual installment payments.
If there are multiple winning tickets, the winnings will be split equally among the lucky customers.
"There is a tremendous amount of buzz and excitement," DeFrancisco said on Friday.
The previous largest Mega Millions jackpot was $390 million in 2007, which was split between two ticket holders in Georgia and New Jersey.
It will be early Saturday morning before lottery officials verify whether there are any winning tickets, according to the Mega Millions website.
About half of the lottery money goes back to ticket holders in the form of winnings, 35 percent to state governments and 15 percent to retailer commissions and lottery operating expenses.
If there is no winner Friday night, lottery officials are considering moving the next drawing to Times Square in New York City as the anticipation and jackpot build, DeFrancisco said.
"It's the number one media market in the world," she said. "It's the world stage."
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2 comments:
It's the number one media market in the world," she said. "It's the world stage."
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players^
In german the verb play alsz refers to gambling.
I hope your missus gets the pony, you get the trip to Yerp.
And while lotsa money doesn't make you happy (in fact the saddest man I ever met was also the richest)I think a few treats such as a pony or that Yerp trip are perfectly reasonable so Good Luck and see ya in Bern at the Klee Museum !
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