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Your allowance of acceptable the Mega Millions jackpot are about to get alike longer.
["950.6"]A assurance announcement the $636 Actor Mega Millions action jackpot hangs in a accessibility abundance window on December 17, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. (Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images)
And the amount of a admission is doubling, from $1 to $2.
This week’s assets on Tuesday and Friday night will be the aftermost time that you can buy a $1 admission to the multi-state lottery. The jackpot stands at $25 actor as of Tuesday
["591.7"]Starting on Saturday, tickets will amount $2, the aforementioned as tickets for battling Powerball.
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Mega Millions is additionally alteration the ambit of numbers that players accept to chose from, which will accomplish the allowance of acceptable the additional award-winning of $1 actor or added hardly bigger than they are now. But the allowance of acceptable the jackpot will get worse — jumping from 1 in 258.9 actor in this week’s assets to 1 in 302.6 actor beneath the new rules.
["950.6"]Those are tougher allowance than Powerball, which is a 1 in 292.2 actor shot.
For Mega Millions, tougher allowance will construe into abundant bigger jackpots in the future, aback there will be added rollover weeks aback no one takes the top prize. And that, forth with the college admission price, will construe into abundant bigger jackpots in the future.
Mega Millions has been accepting a adamantine time aggressive with Powerball, which aloft its admission prices and diffuse its allowance aback in October 2015. Aback then, the Powerball jackpot has topped $200 actor nine times, compared with the three times that a Mega Millions jackpot got that large.
["291"]Related: Action players bifold bottomward on two big jackpots
And it’s the big jackpots that accompany action buyers into the game.
Mega Millions will additionally acquaint a $3 admission that gives players two affairs at the jackpot, rather than one. The catch: A $3 admission holder is alone acceptable to win the jackpot prize, not the accessory prizes that ambit from $1 up to $1 actor or more.
["582"]A approved Mega Millions admission will now accept a 1 in 24 adventitious of acceptable some affectionate of prize. But that’s worse than the 1 in 14.7 allowance that you had in the bold than ends Tuesday.
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