With a half-million-dollar payoff as the lure, a lottery of unprecedented scale in Alaska has proven immensely popular, with tickets selling out in shops across the state as the initially scheduled drawing time approached Wednesday evening, according to organizers.
A single winner has taken the $207&nsp;million jackpot from the latest drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery.
Need some extra spending money this holiday season? Would $207 million be enough? That’s the jackpot for Friday night’s Mega Millions drawing, if a single ticket matches all six numbers in the multi-state lottery.
Clelia Lopes walked around north Jersey with a winning lottery ticket in her purse for days this summer before realizing the stub was worth much more than the paper it was printed on – $126 million more.
The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery drawing was raised to $111 million.
