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Mega Millions Lotto Prizes
One of the 2 biggest and most popular of all USA Lottery games – the Mega Millions – has some of the largest lottery prizes available in the world.
Thousands of lottery players dream of winning a Mega Millions prize twice every week after the Mega Millions lottery draw has taken place on Tuesday and Friday evenings. Everyone, of course, is hoping to win the Mega Millions jackpot but it should not be forgotten that there will be many thousands of other Mega Millions prize amounts up for grabs twice a week.
Just how many different Mega Millions lotto prizes are you able to win every time that you play Mega Millions and how much are they worth?
What are the odds of the Mega Millions lottery results working in your favour, making you a Mega Millions winner and enabling you to win on one of these valuable Mega Millions prize levels?
All of these questions about the Mega Millions lotto will be answered for you on this page...
9 Different Ways to Win the Mega Millions Lotto...
Actually there are more prize categories in which you can win the lottery on the MegaMillions game than in most other lotteries around the world.
With 9 different ways in which you can win the lottery when you play MegaMillions lottery – there is an excellent chance of winning at least one of the many Mega Millions prize amounts on offer.
Basically this means that you have more chances of the Mega Millions lottery results working for you and thus winning the lottery when you play Mega Millions than you do with the majority of other world lotto games.
The Mega Millions prize categories range from matching all 5 of the main Mega Millions winning numbers plus the MEGA ball right down to matching none of the main winning Mega Millions numbers but just the MEGAball itself.
The Mega Millions prize table below illustrates the 9 different categories of Mega Millions win to be achieved with an approximate value for each of the prize tiers as well as other important Mega Millions information – such as the Mega Millions odds of winning in each of the 9 different levels of prizes.
| MEGA MILLIONS PRIZES & ODDS | | MAIN Mega Millions Numbers Matched | MEGA Ball Number | Mega Millions WIN | Mega Millions ODDS | | 5 | YES | Jackpot | 1 in 175,711,536 | | 5 | NO | $ 250,000 | 1 in 3,904,701 | | 4 | YES | $ 10,000 | 1 in 689,065 | | 4 | NO | $ 150 | 1 in 15,313 | | 3 | YES | $ 150 | 1 in 13,781 | | 3 | NO | $ 7 | 1 in 306 | | 2 | YES | $ 10 | 1 in 844 | | 1 | YES | $ 3 | 1 in 141 | | 0 | YES | $ 2 | 1 in 75 | | OVERALL Mega Millions ODDS of Winning a Prize 1 in 40 |
How are the Mega Millions Lotto Prizes Calculated?
The size of the MegaMillions jackpot and all of the other Mega Millions prize amounts on the various levels depends entirely upon how many Mega Millions tickets have been sold in the days between the last Mega Millions lotto draw and the latest one.
Simply, the more Mega Millions tickets that have been sold across the USA and the rest of the world – the bigger the Mega Millions jackpot will be and the higher the other Mega Millions prize amounts will be.
So the above table is based on the averages of the Mega Millions Results but with the Mega Millions lotto being played right around the world – you can be sure that the Mega Millions lottery prizes will be some of the largest available.
Mega Millions Jackpot Rollover
One thing that sets the Mega Millions Lotto apart from the majority of other world lotteries is the Mega Millions jackpot rollover.
If there is no winner of the MegaMillions jackpot – the top prize will rollover onto the following Mega Millions lotto draw – increasing in size each time it is not won.
The exciting thing with the Mega Millions jackpot is that there is no limit at all as to how many times it can rollover – which means that the jackpot is frequently the biggest to be won in the world and regularly reaches some incredible sizes indeed.
Whilst most other jackpot lottery games around the world do rollover the same as the Mega Millions Lotto – it is the actual large size of the increases in the Mega Millions prize jackpot that happens and the fact that there is no cap on the number of rollovers that can occur that makes the MegaMillions Lottery stand out from the rest of world lottery games.
The large MegaMillions jackpot increases that occur each time the top prize is not won are primarily due to the vast number of players that the Mega Millions lotto game has across America and the rest of the world.
Mega Millions Jackpot Prizes...
As mentioned elsewhere, the majority of lottery jackpots around the world tend to PEAK at anywhere between US$ 5 Million & US$ 15 Million and this in itself would be an amazing sum of money to win.
Since it began as The Big Game back in 1996 – the MegaMillions jackpot has AVERAGED out at approximately US$ 47.8 Million and – this is the exciting bit – the MegaMillions results will very regularly produce jackpots that Rollover to amounts that are very much larger than this.
You will see that – more often than not – the Mega Millions lotto jackpot is being advertised at anything upwards of US$ 50 Million or even US$ 100 Million making it among the TOP 2 World Lottery games in the whole of the lottery industry and certainly one of the richest lotteries available.
Every now & then the MegaMillions jackpot will rise to even greater heights of over US$ $200 Million and even US$$ 300 Million or more by which time the whole of the lottery playing world will be sitting up and taking notice.
This is what makes the Mega Millions Lottery such a firm favourite with so many millions of lottery players right across the USA and the rest of the world.
Record Mega Millions Prize Wins...
It is already well documented that the Mega Millions lotto regularly produces some truly massive jackpots – the biggest Mega Millions lotto jackpot to date being an incredible US$ 390 Million.
This record jackpot was won on March 6th 2007 by 2 lucky Mega Millions winners from Georgia and New Jersey and still stands as the largest lottery jackpot ever to have been won in the world.
The lucky Mega Millions winners concerned were Harold and Elaine Messner from Cape May County, New Jersey and Eddie Eugene Nabors from Rocky Face, Georgia.
The winning MegaMillions numbers for this record draw were as follows… 16, 22, 29, 39, 42 and the Mega Ball was 20.
Apart from this amazing Mega Millions jackpot there have been 5 others in excess of US$ 300 Million.
A near record breaking Mega Millions lotto jackpot was won by 2 winners from Idaho and Washington on January 4th 2011 who shared a US$ 380 Million Mega Millions win – incredible.
August 28th 2009 saw the MegaMillions jackpot reach US$ 336 Million which was shared between 2 winners from California and New York.
4 lucky Mega Millions winners split the top prize on August 31st 2007 when a US$ 330 Million Mega Millions lotto jackpot was won in Maryland, New Jersey, Texas and Virginia.
There was just 1 lucky MegaMillions winner from California who correctly predicted the Mega Millions lottery numbers for the November 15th 2005 draw to take home US$ 315 Million.
The latest Mega Millions win in this super league occurred very recently on Friday 25th March 2011 when a lucky winner from New York scooped a fantastic US$ 312 Million.
Odds of Winning a Mega Millions Prize or Jackpot
As you can see from the Mega Millions lotto prize table above – the odds of you predicting the winning MegaMillions lottery numbers range from a more distant 1 in 175 million to win the Mega Millions jackpot right down to 1 in 75 for matching none of the main Mega Millions numbers but just matching the MEGAball.
The actual overall odds of winning ANY one of the thousands of Mega Millions lotto prize amounts is a very respectable 1 in 39.89.
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Mega Millions Lotto Prizes – Summary...
The MegaMillions lottery results produce some of the richest lottery prizes in the world and have more prize categories available to be won than most other lottery games can offer.
You can check the latest Mega Millions result after the draw each Tuesday and Friday evening in various ways – by visiting the Mega Millions Results page on Global Lottery Review, watching the draw live on whichever TV Station it is televised on in your particular state, by checking the newspapers or listening to the radio.
When will the Mega Millions lotto jackpot reach a new record level? Only time will tell and with the frequency of Mega Millions jackpot rollovers occurring week after week it will only be a matter of time before a new world lottery record is created.
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