MegaMillions Lottery Tickets

Mega Millions tickets are for a multi-state lottery game in the USA which has its origins in The Big Game lottery that was launched in 1996. The modern Mega Millions game is played twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays, and boasts a starting jackpot value of $12 million. The Mega Millions jackpot rolls over to the following draw if nobody manages to match all of the numbers required to win the top prize, and this means that jackpots worth scores of millions (and in fact hundreds of millions) crop up again and again. Even better, because Mega Millions lottery tickets can be purchased online, players can participate in Mega Millions from virtually anywhere in the world!

Winning the Mega Millions jackpot requires players to correctly select 5 numbers from the main range 1 to 56 and 1 Mega Ball number from the range 1 to 46. The odds of achieving this with a single entry are 1 in 175,711,536, which is why the rollover feature comes into play more than a few times each year! Of course, some players have won a Mega Millions jackpot on their first attempt, so just because the Mega Millions jackpot odds are lengthy is no reason to be without at least some hope.

Mega Millions currently holds the record for the biggest lottery payout in the world, thanks to a $656 million jackpot that was won (by three ticket holders) in March 2012. The biggest Mega Millions jackpot won by a single ticket was worth $315 million, and that was won by a syndicate of seven Mega Millions players in November 2005.

Even if the Mega Millions jackpot does prove trickier to win than the player hoped, they still have a chance to pick up any one of several smaller prizes if they match slightly fewer Mega Millions numbers.

Like its Powerball cousin, Mega Millions has nine prize levels in total, and the overall odds of winning any Mega Millions prize are around 1 in 40, which compares fairly well with the odds of 1 in 35 when playing the Powerball game.

Details of the numbers required to win each (and the odds of doing so) are shown in the table below:

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