<p><span style="color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">Scott McDonaldNewsweek Mega Millions is one of two multi-state lottery games. Here are tickets from multiple states&mdash;Louisiana, Florida and Mississippi&mdash;bought in February and March. Mega Millions is played on Tuesdays and Fridays. The other multi-state lottery game is Powerball, which is played on Wednesdays and Saturdays.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">Tuesday night s Mega Millions jackpot was worth $ million, with a cash-value option worth $. million.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">There was no grand prize winner on Tuesday, so the jackpot for Friday will increase to $ million, nor were there any tickets sold that matched all the white balls as well as the Mega Ball for the game s second prize of $ million.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">A group of people picked the numbers on four white balls as well as the Mega Ball, for which each won $,, with four of those ticket holders each winning the Megaplier prize of $,. There were tickets holders who matched four white balls without the Mega Ball, which earned them each $, with of them each earning the Megaplier prize of $,. The game also saw winners who matched three white balls and the Mega Ball, each winning $, with of those ticket holders each winning the Megaplier prize of $.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">The previous winning ticket before that was sold in Wisconsin on for a jackpot worth $ million. That was only the fifth, and final, Mega Millions jackpot won in the calendar year.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">Other winners&mdash;dating back to &mdash; were a $ million ticket sold in Ohio and a $ million ticket sold in Texas</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">Mega Millions is a multi-state lottery, and it is one of America s two biggest lottery jackpot games. Mega Millions jackpots start at $ million, and other prizes pay from $ million to $ million or more with a Megaplier.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">Mega Millions drawings take place every Tuesday and Friday at p.m. ET. Five white balls are drawn from a set of balls numbered through , while one yellow Mega Ball is drawn from balls numbered through . You win if the numbers on your lottery ticket match the numbers of the balls drawn on that date.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">Mega Millions tickets cost $ per play. If no one wins the jackpot prize, the money is added to the top prize for the following drawing.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">Most states offer a Megaplier option, which costs an additional $ per play and increases non-jackpot prizes by two, three, four or five times. Before each Mega Millions drawing on Tuesdays and Fridays, the Megaplier is drawn from a pool of balls. Five of these balls are marked with X, six with X, three with X and one with X.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">The odds of winning with a $ Mega Millions ticket are one in million. See the Mega Millions website for more information.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">Powerball is the other multi-state lottery, and it also starts at $ million. Its drawings take place shortly after p.m. ET on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday nights. Here is the Powerball website for more information, or to check past winning numbers.</p>