Mega Millions Jackpot For Tuesday, March 22 Is Now 244 Million!

[OfficialGenius]

No one won Friday night's Mega Millions Jackpot, meaning the prize is going to swell further for the next drawing.

The winning numbers Friday were 14 - 33 - 34 - 54 - 56. The Mega Ball was 37.

The jackpot for the next drawing is an estimated $244 million. The cash option for that prize is $155.7 million.

The next drawing will be held on Tuesday, March 22 at 11 p.m. on WLTX.







Who's playing with me?!





$244 Million

[Imback2010]

Whoa I love dreaming.....




I'm down wit ya... how much will you spend on tickets. I always go $5 the furthest.....

But if i had guaranteed income i would probably spend like $50...lol


it would be fun check all those tickets..hahah

[slapped]

Thats it,, Hit the Jackpot and,,, F$@K EBAY,,,,,(and Paypal too,)

[TGMT²]

Originally Posted by OfficialGenius

Who's playing with me?!

Not me!

[jeffweico]

Hey, sure the odds are astronomical, but they are STILL BETTER than the odds of eBay ever treating sellers decently.

[123]

I read an interesting stastistic that says, you have a higher chance of getting hit by ligtening twice then winning the lotto

[Gman91189]

Lotto is just a tease to get ur money
Everyone knows that the probability of winning the lottery is a pretty big long shot. How long, however, you probably never really thought about. Your actual odds of winning the lottery depend on where you play, but single state lotteries usually have odds of about 18 million to 1 while multiple state lotteries have odds as high as 120 million to 1.

If you have ever thought you'd win the lottery, you're not alone. About one out of every three people in the United States think that winning the lottery is the only way to become financially secure in their life. This is a frightening statistic when you sit down and consider what the above odds really mean.

It's time to take a long hard look at the chances of you winning the lottery. While winning the lottery may be something that you want, to show you your chances we'll take a look at a number of remote occurrences that you probably wouldn't like to have happen to you - and probably don't think will ever happen to you - but are still much more likely to happen to you than winning the lottery.

How about the classic odds of being struck by lightning? The actual probability of this happening varies from year to year, but as a good estimate, the National Safety Council says between 70 and 120 people a year die in the US by lightning - so let's take 100 as our base. With the US population being approximately 265 million people, that means that the chances of being killed by lightning are roughly 2,650,000 to 1. Not very likely. However you are still 6 to 45 times more likely to die from a lightning strike than you would be to win the lottery.

Now nobody really wants to die from flesh eating bacteria, and with odds at about 1 million to 1, the chances that you will die that way are pretty slim. Then again, you are 18 to 120 times more likely to die this way than to win the lottery.

What are the chances that if you're playing with a group of four that two of you will get a hole-in-one on the exact same hole? At 17 million to 1, they're better than the chances of you winning the lottery.

What about dieing from a snake bite or bee sting? It probably isn't a way that you have imagined that you would leave the earth. You're a whopping 180 to 1,200 times more likely to die from one of these incidents than win the lottery. That's because the probability of dieing from a snake bite or bee sting is about 100,000 to 1.

Now I know that you are not a bad person and you don't imagine finding yourself on death row for a crime you committed anytime soon. Still, it's a lot more likely that you will be legally executed than win the lottery. In fact, you are 30,000% to 200,000% more likely to die in a legal execution than to win the lottery.

Or If I told you that you were 450,000 to 3,000,000 times more likely to die in an asteroid collision in the year 2029 than to win the lottery, what would you think? Well, these are in fact the odds according to this report at space.com.

If none of the above has convinced you to stop playing the lottery, then I'll bring out my favorite lottery fact. If you drive 10 miles to purchase your lottery ticket, it's three to twenty times more likely for you to be killed in a car accident along the way than to win the jackpot.

[Imback2010]

I just love the spice of life....

[mycrowman]

oh no I was gonna buy one ticket, but forgot.

How much are they btw, I wanted to spend 1 dollar .ha

[OfficialGenius]

Originally Posted by Imback2010

Whoa I love dreaming.....




I'm down wit ya... how much will you spend on tickets. I always go $5 the furthest.....

But if i had guaranteed income i would probably spend like $50...lol


it would be fun check all those tickets..hahah

Me too but I'm on my way to the store now to spend $1 or maybe a few dollars.

[OfficialGenius]

You guys must have no faith or are just too CHEAP! Lmao, come on guys, with all that home made stealth money you can at least give it a try by spending AT LEAST $1 or 2 dollars.
Because... Hey, you never know!

[TGMT²]

Originally Posted by OfficialGenius

You guys must have no faith or are just too CHEAP!

Nah, my GF plays and she says if she wins I'll get half.

But I suspect if she wins I may never see here again. LOL

[slapped]

Originally Posted by TGMT²

Nah, my GF plays and she says if she wins I'll get half.

But I suspect if she wins I may never see here again. LOL

NEVER Happen, That would Make YOU the Lottery winner,,,

No I suspect that she will hang around with a Whole NEW Attitude, where she will Insist upon "Wearing the Pants" in the Relationship because she is the "Breadwinner" or something to that effect,,,

Maybe I have been hanging the Wrong type of Women in my life,,to be thinking like that,,,but then again,,,Maybe Not

[inleague2003]

We should get a suspension forum lottery pool going.Everyone send $5.00 to my Pay pal account and ill get the tickets from the carryout.If we hit ill send everyone there share of the winnings.

[Skys The Limit]

Originally Posted by inleague2003

We should get a suspension forum lottery pool going.Everyone send $5.00 to my Pay pal account and ill get the tickets from the carryout.If we hit ill send everyone there share of the winnings.

Theirs one little thing Who are you!

[mycrowman]

Those lotto pools never work out well.

[Imback2010]

Only for the person that wins and runs off

[mycrowman]

I will be playing today. If you sont see me any more here you will know what happened.

[OfficialGenius]

March 22, 2011 MEGA MILLIONS WINNING NUMBERS: 01-14-35-50-53 + MEGA BALL ( 43 ) MEGAPLIER x 4

0 WINNERS OF $244,000,000.00 Jackpot (TICKETS SOLD IN : )
24 SECOND-PRIZE WINNERS OF $250,000.00 (TICKETS SOLD IN : AZ,CA,GA,MA,MD,MI,MN,NE,NY,PA,TX)


Well, since nobody matched all 6 numbers on Tuesday...




March Madness in Mega Millions: Jackpot Grows to Estimated $312 Million
RELEASE DATE: 3/24/2011

Mega Millions is creating its own brand of March Madness, with a jackpot raising the roof at an estimated $312 million for the Friday, March 25 drawing. Sales are so brisk that officials in the Mega Millions states revised the jackpot estimate from $304 million to the current $312 million.

If one ticket matches all six numbers in Friday’s drawing, the holder of that ticket will be able to choose between receiving the full jackpot in 26 annual payments of about $12 million, or a one-time cash option of about $198.2 million.

“We’re seeing excitement from coast to coast in the 43 jurisdictions in which Mega Millions is played,” said Texas Lottery Commission Executive Director and Mega Millions Group Director Gary Grief. “Along with that excitement, we encourage players to have fun and play responsibly.”

Mega Millions has been creating winners nationwide. Although no ticket matched all six numbers in the Tuesday, March 22 drawing, more than 1.9 million tickets won prizes ranging from $2 to $1 million. The winning numbers were: 1-14-35-50-53 and the Mega Ball number was 43.

The $312 million estimated jackpot is the sixth-highest in Mega Millions history. If no ticket matches all six numbers in Friday’s drawing, the estimated jackpot is likely to approach the $390 million range for the March 29 drawing.

This jackpot has been growing since February 1, when the Mega Millions jackpot was last won. The jackpot has now rolled 14 times without a winner. The odds of winning the jackpot are approximately one in 176 million. The odds of winning any of the Mega Millions prizes are approximately 1 in 40.

That’s not all. The Powerball jackpot has grown to an estimated $125 million for Saturday’s drawing. Taken together, those two jackpots represent the highest combined amount since a large number of states began offering both games in January 2010.

Mega Millions has awarded 110 jackpots since the first drawing on May 17, 2002. In that time, more than 21.88 billion tickets have been sold nationwide. Each participating state determines how its Mega Millions profits are spent. In many states, profits are earmarked for education. The beneficiaries in other states include parks, natural resources, property tax relief, programs to help the elderly and several other important causes.

Mega Millions is currently played in 43 jurisdictions (41 states plus the District of Columbia and the U. S. Virgin Islands). Drawings are held Tuesdays and Fridays at 11:00 p.m. Eastern Time; 10:00 p.m. Central Time; 9:00 p.m. Mountain Time and 8:00 p.m. Pacific Time.

[Gman91189]

must have not seen my old post about the chances of winningn huh lol

[jeffweico]

OK.. If, by some miracle, I could actually WIN this thing, it could really help me out! It would be like winning the Friskies Free Cat Food for a Year contest!

[rsot]

I am so down for a group thing =( I don't live in the USA so...yeah