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The Mega Millions lottery prize for the night of August 20, 2021, has increased to a value of $ 256 million. Today’s winning numbers are:
41-43-51-57-70
Mega ball: 1
If you are interested in watching the Mega Millions draw live online, just visit this link and click on the window that says “Watch The Drawing Live” and click the Play button. The video starts automatically and the stream will air in about 10 to 20 seconds after the draw. But keep in mind that sometimes the stream “stutters.” If that happens, go back to this page and we’ll have the numbers announced as soon as 11pm.
The price is $ 2 per play. Mega Millions is played in 44 states in addition to Washington DC and the US Virgin Islands. In most states, sales stop an hour before the draw. When you buy your Mega Millions ticket you will have to choose six numbers from two groups of numbers – five different numbers from 1 to 70 and one number from 1 to 25. There is also the “Easy Pick” option, where the computer chooses random numbers for you. You win the Jackpot by matching the six winning numbers in a draw.
There is also the Megaplier, which is offered in most states. The Megaplier increases the prizes (minus the grand prize) to 2, 3, 4 or 5 times. It costs an additional $ 1 per game. To find out if your state is participating, visit the lottery website in the state in which you play. You can find a list of all the lotteries in the country by clicking on this link.
Number field
Players will choose 5 numbers between 1 and 70.
Mega name
Players will choose 1 number between 1 and 25.
probabilities
The overall odds of winning any prize range from 1 to 24.
Jackpot odds are 1 in 303 million.
Table of White Balls and Yellow Balls with the chances of winning:
How late can you wait to buy tickets?
Many will not want to miss the opportunity to have a bulky bank account. It is important to know that many states will close Mega Millions ticket sales 15 minutes before the draw, but in others, sales will stop an hour earlier. We recommend that you contact the service center to find out the exact time limit in your state.
How do you know if someone won the biggest prize?
It usually takes about two hours from the time of the draw to process all the tickets and find out if anyone won. The official time of the draw is at 23:00 East (22:00 Central).
It is customary for the lottery that once it is known if someone won or not, Mega Millions will update their website to restart the biggest prize by $ 40 million or to increase the estimated biggest prize for the next draw, if anyone he won. However, sometimes it takes much longer to get an answer than a couple of hours after the draw. For example, with the biggest grand prize in October 2018, which was about $ 1.60 trillion, we didn’t really know if anyone won until the next morning. But this was very unusual.
Because Mega Millions changed the rules of the biggest prize in October 2017, we can expect a higher probability that the bigger prizes will get bigger and break more records over time. The largest jackpots in history were: 1) $ 1.60 trillion on October 23, 2018, 2) $ 656 million in March 2012; 3.) $ 648 million as of December 2013; 4) $ 536 million in July 2016; 5.) $ 522 million in July 2018, and 6.) $ 521 million in March 2018.
The odds of winning Mega Millions are 1 in 302.6 million, which is actually less than the odds of winning the Powerball, which is 1 in 292.2 million.