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“We know that many people will likely receive tickets to
Friday’s drawing as holiday gifts, and what a gift that would
turn out to be if you ended up with a ticket worth a $1.15
billion jackpot,” Joshua Johnston, lead director for the Mega
Millions Consortium said in a Wednesday statement.
The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are 1 in
302,575,350, while the odds of winning any Mega Millions prize
are 1 in 24, according to lottery officials.
Tickets for the game are sold in 45 states, along with
Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Mega Millions
tickets are $2 a piece. Half of the proceeds from the sale of
each ticket remains in the state where the ticket was sold.
Drawings are held at 11 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesdays and
Fridays.
“I can’t think of a better way to celebrate the holidays –
whether Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, the Winter Solstice, or
any other way people choose to celebrate the season – than by
helping fulfill the dreams that come with a prize like this and
prizes that will be won at all levels of the game," Johnston
said.
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