It will cost you to get to the Gordo Award.
The price to play Mega Millions has increased to $ 5-more than twice its long-standing cost, since lottery officials promise that the change influences the probabilities and produces more boats of one billion dollars.
The updates of the beloved lottery game, including the increase in the price of $ 2, are customary just before the draw on Tuesday night.
Lottery officials say that increasing income will improve the chances of winning Jackpot from 1 to 303 million to 1 in 290 million, and believes that better probabilities will increase sales.
“People are really due to the big prizes,” said Joshua Johnston, director of the Washington State Lottery that runs the Mega Millions game. “We hope to see a sales elevator in this.”
The highest tickets of the tickets mean that the main prize can start at $ 50 million, instead of $ 20 million as it had previously done. Nor Meeaans every time there is no great winner, the main prize will swell equally bigger.
Given the minimum $ 10 award in a winning ticket in the new game, each winning ticket will pay at least the cost to play, lottery officials said.
The general probabilities of winning any award will improve 1 in 23 of 1 in 24, the authorities added.
The highest ticket cost is only the second time that game prices have increased in the 20 years of game history.
Since the game launched in 2002, seven boats of one billion dollars have been won in seven separate states and more than 1,200 players have become millionaires, the company said.
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