When determining the Powerball jackpot, officials also overview the annuity factor. No 1 matched all six numbers in Friday night's Mega Millions drawing so the jackpot will climb to $290 million, according to the Mega Millions web-site. Meanwhile, the Powerball jackpot is at $454 million with a cash choice of $232.6 million, according to the Powerb

Do you know even the first point about how lottery jackpots are taxed? Lottery winners have one year from the date of the drawing to sign their ticket and claim their prize, according to the Pennsylvania Lottery Commission. Winners can't be publicly identified till they claim their prize. But if you played the game but didn't win the jackpot, ther

Even so, the particular person who bought the ticket added the Megaplier alternative, which multiplied the total prize to $two million, according to the Iowa Lottery. The odds of winning a $1 million prize – when the ticket matches the five white balls – are 1 in 12,607,306. With last week’s drawing, all the public knows, at least for now, i

Most recently, in June 2020, two Wisconsin good friends from the Menomonie location split the Powerball jackpot of $22 million with a ticket bought at Synergy Coop Exit 45 in Menomonie. And as you guessed it, the winner of the second-tier Powerball prize elected to remain anonymous as most winners do, according to the Texas Lottery Commission. Atto

The Mega Millions jackpot for Tuesday's drawing rose to an estimated $31 million with a money choice of $16.5 million, according tomegamillions.com. A single ticket matched all 5 numbers except for the Mega Ball and added the Megaplier worth $four million. Mega Millions' seventh-biggest jackpot, $540 million, was for the July eight, 2016, drawing.