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New Orleans - People hoping to strike it rich are lining up all around southeast Louisiana to buy Mega Millions lottery tickets today. You can watch the drawing live tonight exclusively on Fox 8 at 10pm.
The record jackpot is $540 million dollars, making it the richest lottery in world history surpassing the former record of $390 million.
If one ticket matches all six numbers for the half-billion dollar mega-jackpot, the winner would have the choice of receiving the full jackpot in 26 annual payments of about $20.7 million, or a cash option of approximately $389.8 million.
Since January 24th, the lottery jackpot has now rolled 18 times without a winner. The odds of winning the jackpot are approximately one in 176 million.
Mathematician Mike Catalona of Dakota Wesleyan University in South Dakota says if you buy 50 tickets, you have just as much of a chance to win as you have being struck by lightning.
The record jackpot is $540 million dollars, making it the richest lottery in world history surpassing the former record of $390 million.
If one ticket matches all six numbers for the half-billion dollar mega-jackpot, the winner would have the choice of receiving the full jackpot in 26 annual payments of about $20.7 million, or a cash option of approximately $389.8 million.
Since January 24th, the lottery jackpot has now rolled 18 times without a winner. The odds of winning the jackpot are approximately one in 176 million.
Mathematician Mike Catalona of Dakota Wesleyan University in South Dakota says if you buy 50 tickets, you have just as much of a chance to win as you have being struck by lightning.
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