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March Madness Perfect Bracket's Near Impossible Odds: Among The Big Payouts Is The X Offer For Trip To Mars
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - 2:48pm | 1277March Madness 2025 has arrived with the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament set to kick off the round of 64 games on Thursday, March 20. For years, sports fans and non-sports fans alike have competed in office pools, online challenges and other contests to make a perfect bracket picking the winners of...
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Christmas Eve Mega Millions: Jackpot Soars To Record $1 Billion In Year Of Rare Wins
Wednesday, December 25, 2024 - 2:07am | 399The Mega Millions jackpot has reached $1 billion for Tuesday’s Christmas Eve drawing, marking only the seventh time in the game’s history that the prize has crossed the billion-dollar threshold. What Happened: The winning numbers drawn on Dec. 24 are 38, 45, 14, 46, and 11, with a Mega...
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These Lottery Winners Lost Everything: 'I Was Much Happier When I Was Broke'
Wednesday, January 3, 2024 - 5:37pm | 808Almost everyone dreams about winning the lottery at some point in their lives, but most never get lucky enough to see those dreams realized. Even if you do manage to hit a jackpot, it's not always a fairy-tale ending. What To Know: The lottery jackpot total has only crossed the $...
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Didn't Win The Mega Millions Jackpot? This Restaurant Is Giving Out Free Food As A Consolation Prize
Wednesday, August 2, 2023 - 3:57pm | 349Nobody won the Mega Millions jackpot on Tuesday, bringing it to $1.25 billion. But, you can still win with your losing ticket. Krispy Kreme Inc (NASDAQ: DNUT) is giving customers a free doughnut if they show a losing lottery ticket. The offer is only good Wednesday, August 2, and you must show...
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Tesla Investor Ross Gerber Pledges Half Of Mega Millions Jackpot To Charity: 'If I Win...'
Wednesday, August 2, 2023 - 1:49am | 435Ross Gerber, CEO of Gerber Kawasaki and Tesla investor, took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to pledge to donate half of his potential lottery winnings to charity as the Mega Millions jackpot soared to an estimated $1.1 billion. What Happened: Gerber took to Twitter to announce his intentions...
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Mega Millions Jackpot Rises To More Than $1 Billion, One Of The Largest Lottery Prizes In US History
Saturday, July 29, 2023 - 4:10pm | 350The Mega Millions jackpot has reached an astounding sum of over $1 billion, as no winning ticket matched all six numbers drawn on Friday night. The numbers drawn on Friday night were 5, 10, 28, 52, 63, and the Mega Ball was 18, the lottery said in a statement. Since the last jackpot was...
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March Madness Perfect Bracket Odds: Hold My Beer, Mega Millions And PowerBall
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 8:25am | 1163Millions of Americans will fill out a March Madness bracket ahead of the 2023 NCAA Men’s National Tournament in hopes of winning an office pool, a pool with friends and family, winning a national competition or filling out the first-ever perfect bracket. Just how rare is a perfect bracket...
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Good Luck Strikes On Friday The 13th: Mega Millions Jackpot Winner In Maine After 25 Drawings
Saturday, January 14, 2023 - 1:36pm | 722A resident of Lebanon, Maine, where just 6,500 people reside, put an end to the three-month bonanza that saw 25 consecutive Mega Millions drawings with no winner, by purchasing the winning ticket of Friday's drawing. The Winning Numbers? 30-43-45-46-61 and gold Mega Ball 14. The Win? A whopping...
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Mega Millions Tops $1.1 Billion: Here's How Much You'll Actually Win And 10 Things You Can Buy With The Winnings
Tuesday, January 10, 2023 - 5:42pm | 1433If you’ve ever dreamed of instantly having hundreds of millions of dollars to buy whatever you want, the Mega Millions might be calling your name on Tuesday. For the fourth time in four years, the jackpot on the Mega Millions lottery drawing has topped the $1 billion mark. Here’s a look...
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Mega Millions Jackpot Grows To Third-Largest Jackpot In Game's History After No Winner
Saturday, January 7, 2023 - 11:27am | 480Another mega-million drawing has resulted in no big winner. On Friday night, the Mega Millions jackpot jumped to more than $1 billion after the drawing ended without a winner of the jackpot. Friday night's drawing came up with numbers 3, 20, 46, 59, 63, and the gold Mega Ball 13...
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The 10 Most Searched Things In 2022: How Wordle, Queen Elizabeth, Mega Millions And Jeffrey Dahmer Stack Up In Google Search Rankings
Sunday, January 1, 2023 - 3:15pm | 937As the new year begins, Benzinga takes a look back at new trends that emerged in 2022 and topics that drew the most online search interest. Here is a look at some of the most searched-for items on search engine Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG)(NASDAQ: GOOGL). Top 10 searched items on...
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10 Things You Can Buy With Mega Millions Jackpot After Taxes: SPY, Crypto, Teslas, Real Estate, Sports Teams And More
Friday, July 29, 2022 - 4:24pm | 1462Friday’s Mega Millions jackpot has hit $1.1 billion, which could mark the second highest winning ticket for the jackpot game. Here’s a look at how much someone could take home and what they could choose to purchase with the winnings. Mega Millions Jackpot: The Mega Millions jackpot for...
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Mega Millions Jackpot For July 29: How To Play, Where To Buy Tickets And Where Winning $1B Lottery Ranks
Friday, July 29, 2022 - 11:38am | 903Ever dreamed of winning more than $1 billion? If the answer is yes, a $2 Mega Millions ticket might be among the items you purchase Friday. What Happened: Mega Millions is one of two big jackpot games in multiple states and territories in the U.S. The jackpot has not been won for the past 29...
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Mega Millions Jackpot: How To Play, Where To Buy Tickets And Where The $810 Million Ranks
Tuesday, July 26, 2022 - 1:32pm | 842Ever dreamed of winning more than $800 million? If the answer is yes, a $2 Mega Millions ticket might be among the items you purchase Tuesday. What Happened: Mega Millions is one of two big jackpot games done by multiple states and territories in the U.S. The jackpot has not been won for the...
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8 Biggest Lottery Payouts Of All Time
Monday, October 22, 2018 - 4:10pm | 363As of last week, the Mega Millions lottery jackpot had increased to $1.6 billion — its highest to date. According to USAMega.com, this enormous jackpot can be received in annual allotments, or a single lump sum, both of which include plenty of federal and state taxes. Here are the eight...