Mega Millions | PA Lottery (2024)

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7. $656 Million (Kansas, Illinois, Maryland) Three separate winning tickets, purchased in Kansas, Illinois, and Maryland, split this huge jackpot on March 30, 2012. Two of the three winning tickets were Quick Picks, randomly assigned numbers from the computer.

Over the past 20 years, Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots have only been won in Pennsylvania, South Jersey and Delaware a handful of times.

As for the Mega Ball, only six numbers have been drawn more than 100 times: 1, 3, 9, 10, 15, and 7.

USA Mega, which tracks Mega Millions statistics, says the most common Mega Millions numbers are 10, 3, 17, 14 and 46 for the first five numbers. The most common Mega ball number is 11.

The Mega Millions, like any lottery, is a game of chance. Glickman suggests that the best way to increase your chances of winning is to buy more tickets, within reason. For example, if the probability of winning the jackpot is 1 in 302,575,350 with one ticket, it becomes 2 in 302,575,350 if you buy two.

Chances of winning the lotto between playing quick picks or selecting your own numbers are both equal. “Around 70 to 80 percent of Powerball players use Quick Pick tickets, and the same percentage of winning entries are Quick Picks,” one report said.

New York state is home to the most Mega Millions jackpot winners, with 42 winning tickets sold in the Empire State. California follows with 36 winning tickets sold in-state. The more populated states correlate to selling more Mega Millions jackpot-winning tickets.

Most prize checks will arrive in between four and six weeks after your claim has been received at Lottery Headquarters and validated. Some claims submitted in December cannot be processed until January, so those prize payments and tax forms will be issued in the same calendar year.

In the 1990s, Romanian-Australian economist Stefan Mandel and his small team entered the lottery and won. Over and over and over again. The feat, of course, wasn't achieved through having a really lucky set of numbers.

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The 'loneliest' numbers

The main numbers that have been drawn the least number of times during the last seven years are 51 and 49. Those numbers have only been drawn 34 times. As for the Mega Ball, one number holds the least-drawn spot: 8, drawn just 18 times in the past seven years.

For the Mega Ball, there are four numbers that have been drawn three times: 1, 11, 24, and 7. There are some, however, that haven't been drawn at all.

In terms of the Lotto Bonus Ball the numbers 28 and 50 came top of the list by appearing 5 times each. When it came to EuroMillions the luckiest number was 34 – it rolled out a whopping 19 times in the process of setting up massive wins in 2023. It was followed by 21, 33, 35 and 44.

Players may pick six numbers from two separate pools of numbers - five different numbers from 1 to 70 (the white balls) and one number from 1 to 25 (the gold Mega Ball) - or select Easy Pick/Quick Pick. You win the jackpot by matching all six winning numbers in a drawing.

Mega Millions® tickets cost $2.00 per play. Players may pick six numbers from two separate pools of numbers - five different numbers from 1 to 70 (the white balls) and one number from 1 to 25 (the gold Mega Ball) - or select Easy Pick/Quick Pick. You win the jackpot by matching all six winning numbers in a drawing.

Apart from Jackpots, there are other small prizes in each of these games. there are some serious lottery players who won smaller prizes in both Powerball and Jackpot. But as per the official records, there is no single person who won both Mega Million and Powerball.

Back in 2023, he reportedly bought a seven-bedroom, 11-bathroom mansion in Bel Air, Los Angeles, worth US$47 million, per New York Post. The lavish home also boasts a champagne tasting room, an infinity pool, a cinema and a wine cellar. He has two other properties in Hollywood Hills and Altadena.