USA UU Has a lottery fever when the jackpot increases to $ 2.2 billion

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USA UU Has a lottery fever when the jackpot increases to $ 2.2 billion







NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gregory Baron, 24, and Ben Nelson, 27, on Monday, were eagerly buying $ 2 tickets for the Mega Millions jackpot in hopes of winning the $ 1.6 thousand jackpot. millions and become one of the richest in the world. 

"It would incorporate me as a business and I would become my own company," Baron said inside the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan, adding that he would also pay his student loans and the parents' mortgage and donate to charities if he wins. .  

"I would like to establish myself, but keep working so as not to erode in nothingness," said Baron.   

Lottery players face odds of 1 in 303 million winning the Mega Millions draw on Tuesday night. By comparison, the odds of being killed by a shark are 1 in 3.7 million in their lifetime, according to the International Shark Attack File. 

The Mega Millions website crashed briefly on Monday before the draw due to an increase in the number of visitors, said a spokeswoman for the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency, which manages the website.  









The posters show the prizes for Tuesday's Mega Millions draw and Powerball Wednesday in New York City, USA. UU., On October 22, 2018. REUTERS / Brendan McDermid



Mega Millions set a world record for lottery prizes after there were no winning numbers for the $ 1 billion prize on Friday. The previous record was a jackpot of $ 1,586 billion for a Powerball raffle in 2016. 

About 280 million tickets were sold for Friday's draw, with about 60 percent of all combinations of winning winning numbers, said Seth Elkin, a spokesperson for the agency. 

Tickets sold for Tuesday's draw are expected to cover 75 percent of all combinations of possible numbers, he said. 

If a player scores all six numbers to win the jackpot, he can opt for an immediate cash payment of $ 904 million or receive the $ 1.6 billion prize for 29 years. 

Nelson, a post-production manager based in Manhattan, said that if he won the jackpot, he would travel and buy a farm in northern California where he would raise Bernese mountain dogs.  

"You would take all the boring things out of the way early, then make a movie," he added. 









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In Chicago, a crowded newsstand inside the Ogilvie Transportation Center in the city could not show the record amount of the prize because $ 999 million was the highest number that its electronic poster could show. 

"It's only two dollars, I'm spending my coffee money on this today," said Rita Gomez, a self-styled 51-year-old lottery player who was buying tickets for herself, her sister and two friends at a convenience store in Chicago.  

The Powerball lottery prize on Wednesday is $ 620 million, which makes it the fifth largest jackpot in US history. UU., After no one got all six numbers in Saturday's draw. The cash payment of the lump sum is estimated at $ 354.3 million. 

If there were more than one winner, the jackpot would be split proportionally, as it was in 2012 with a $ 656 million Mega Millions jackpot, said a lottery official. 

Mega Millions tickets are sold in 44 US states. UU., The District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands. Several states allow the purchase of tickets online, but prohibit purchases outside the state and abroad. 

Both lottery jackpots have recently been increased by rule changes that have reduced the odds of winning. The odds of winning Mega Millions were reduced one year ago from 1 in 259 million to generate bigger prizes. 

"I will never win, but you have to try," said Hank Kattan, 75, in Manhattan. "I would like to change my way of life". 





Report of Gina Cherelus; Additional reports by Rich McKay in Atlanta, Alex Dobuzinskis in Los Angeles and P. J. Huffstutter in Chicago; Edited by Paul Simao





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