Mega Millions lottery<\/a> instead of just buying a ticket for the draw. So effectively, if you won $30,000 (for example) you could see your winnings increase to $150,000 if you’d put down an extra $1.50 when you placed your bet.<\/p>\nPowerball winners are forfeiting their winnings, too<\/b><\/h3>\n
Outside of the Mega Millions, there are other massive lottery wins that have gone unclaimed. We really feel for the Indiana resident who missed out on claiming their $103 million Powerball jackpot in 2002\u2026 nearly two decades on, we definitely wouldn\u2019t be over it<\/p>\n
Not every state plays the game\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
It\u2019s bad luck if you\u2019re in Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Mississippi, Nevada, or Utah – these are the only four states in the country that don\u2019t participate in the Mega Millions. No, we don\u2019t know why they don\u2019t want to come to the party either.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nPeople have used their winnings in\u2026 interesting ways\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
Winners of various different lotteries around the world have used their winnings to support 420 Day (the annual May 4th celebration of weed smoking), build a water park, invest in breast enlargements for their siblings, make substantial donations to the Democratic Party of Korea, and buy\u2026 more lottery tickets. Well, if you\u2019ve struck gold once\u2026<\/p>\n
Some numbers are much luckier than others\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
In the Mega Millions lottery, the number 62 ball has been drawn a whopping 23 times whilst the number 35 ball has only been drawn six times. There\u2019s no reason for this, but we\u2019d still bear it in mind next time you\u2019re picking your numbers.<\/p>\n
So there you go – a few facts about the Mega Millions that we’re almost certain you didn’t have a clue about. The only question left is, will you be one of the lucky ones…?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Want to try your luck at the Mega Millions? You\u2019re not alone, with millions of US citizens across 44 states trying their hand at winning a minimum of $40 million twice a week. Here are some facts about the lottery that might surprise you before you head out and buy your (hopefully) lucky ticket\u2026 The Mega Millions lottery hasn\u2019t always been mega It actually started out on a pretty small scale, centered on the Midwest and the East Coast. When the Mega Millions lottery launched in 1996 (back then it was known as the \u201cBig Game\u201d) the only states that <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3852,"featured_media":58358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[483,3227,6827],"yst_prominent_words":[9274,15746,9566,10493,9783,15748,15744,8900,15742,15747,11121,15749,15740,9095,8811,12495,15741,12125,15743,15745],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3852"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58355"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=58355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}