Online Lottery - Facts and Figures

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It's generally thought that Spainish Sorteo Extraordinario de Navidad is the world largest lottery. On Christmas 2003 its prize fund approached around $2.2 billion with the initial prize of $470 million and the 2nd among $235 million. texas lotto However, as every number entered is printed on 170 tickets which are often sold in fractions (usually tenths), the El Gord,o prizes usually are split involving the multiple winners. Therefore the winnings single players receive are often less than in another popular lotteries and are definately not the "winner-take-all" concept popular elsewhere.

Mega Millions reported world largest lottery prize of $390,000,000 hit on the 6th of March 2007 and shared between two payers, one from Georgia and a different one from New Jersey.

The greatest Powerball jackpot of $315 million was taken by West Virginia native Andrew J. Whittaker on the 25th of December, 2002. However, since he opted for the lump sum, his after-tax prize was around $114 million.

$193 million California Lotto jackpot was shared among three players in February 16, 2002, embracing be the biggest in the real history of their state lottery game.

$45.8 million seemed to be the biggest Lotto jackpot in the Michigan Lottery records, won in 1995 and shared by three winners.

Over $100 million jackpot, the largest in the annals of the Florida Lottery, was taken in September 14, 1990 when six tickets holders split a $106.5 million jackpot, each getting $17.75 million.

An estimated $145 million Texas lottery jackpot was hit in June 19, 2004.

Euromillions largest jackpot was taken on the 3rd of February 2006 when three players, two from France and one from Portugal, shared EUR 183 million.

Italian SuperEnalotto largest lottery winning received to date was hit on the 4th of May 2005 and amounted to EUR 71,800,000.

German National Lottery biggest lottery winning of EUR37,600,000 was taken on the 7th of October 2006.

Largest UK prize was hit on the 6th of January 1996 and totaled at GBP 42,000,000.

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At the moment of writing Powerball has better chances to win than Mega Millions, namely 1:146 million.

However, it is expected that Powerball will change its double matrix in January 2009, making its jackpot harder to win (1:195 million) versus the present Mega Millions game (1:176 million).

Mega Millions is expected to change its matrixes as well; it's unknown when, or from what extent, as of August 2008

On January 4, 2009, Florida will join the Powerball game. They say that is one of the major reasons behind the change of Powerball double matrix.

Apparently, Florida lotto has better odds than California lottery since the former sum up at 1:23 million while California Superlotto odds are in 1:41 million.

Chances to hit Texas lottery are now at almost 1:26 million.

New York Lottery's odds amount to 1:45 million while Michigan lottery's odds are only at about 1:11 million.