Mega Millions jackpot at $20 million: Purchase your entries today
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The Mega Millions jackpot currently sits at $20 million. The next drawing is tonight at 11 p.m. ET. You can buy entries until 15 minutes prior. Any entries purchased after that (for example, at 10:50 p.m. ET) will count for the following Tuesday’s drawing.
You can purchase Michigan lottery tickets online. We recommend this method because it’s fast and convenient. No need to visit a retail location to get your tickets for the drawing. Plus, when you sign up, you can use our link and the Michigan Lottery promo code MLIVE for a 50% deposit match up to $100.
After that, the Michigan Lottery will match half of your initial deposit for up to $100. If you deposit $200 or more, you’ll get $100 in bonus credits. Not ready to deposit that much? You can do less; you’ll get a match equal to half of your first (and only your first) deposit. For example, a $60 deposit would earn you $30 in credit.
You can use the credit to play Michigan Lottery games, including Mega Millions.
Earlier this week, the Mega Millions game made history. A winning ticket in Florida earned one lucky player the $1.58 billion jackpot. The prize was the biggest in Mega Millions history since the game’s inception in the 90s. It was the third-highest prize awarded in the history of both Powerball and Mega Millions.
The winning numbers were 13, 19, 20, 32, and 33. The gold Mega Ball number was 14 and the Megaplier was 2x.
You might be wondering if you should buy tickets now that the big jackpot has been won. Maybe fewer people will purchase entries with a prize of $20 million?
That may be true, but the fact of the matter is that your odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are always the same, no matter how many people are entered. The odds of any given ticket winning the jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350.
The only factor impacted by more entries is the possibility that multiple players will win the jackpot and split the prize pool.
So while you may be just as likely to hit the jackpot at $20 as when it’s at $1.58 billion, fewer overall entries make it less likely you’d have to split the prize if you won.
To play Mega Millions, you have to select five white ball numbers between 1 and 70 and a gold Mega Ball number between 1 and 25.
You can purchase multiple “lines” on a single ticket, giving you more chances to win. In Michigan, you can purchase Mega Millions entries online or at a participating retail location.
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