The game's expected payout climbed past the $1 billion mark after its most recent drawing on Tuesday.
prize fund surpassed $1 billion this week, marking only the third time the jackpot has crossed this threshold in the lottery game's two-decade-long history. With an estimated $1.1 billion promised to at least one lucky winner, the game's current pot is almost as large aswon in 2018 and 2021. Those years, players whose ticket numbers matched the figures drawn by Mega Millions administrators were awarded roughly $1.05 billion and $1.5 billion.
One winner from the first group and three dozen from the second bought their tickets with the game's Megaplier feature — guaranteeing a larger prize for an added cost per ticket — which drove up their respective awards to $3 million from $1 million and to $30,000 from $10,000. In the aftermath of the drawing, Mega Millions reported an"unprecedented" increase in traffic to their website, where people can enter for a chance to win during the next one.
to players that urged them to be aware of scammers looking to collect cash fraudulently by masquerading as official Mega Millions representatives who deliver news of a fake win via phone, text or email and ask targets for fees in return.
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