The worth of a Mega Thousands and thousands ticket will greater than double subsequent yr as a part of an overhaul of the lottery sport.
Beginning in April 2025, tickets will improve from $2 to $5, Mega Thousands and thousands introduced on Monday.
Lottery tickets for the Mega Thousands and thousands jackpot are seen in a retailer on Aug. 8, 2023 in New York.
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The rise will mark the second worth adjustment for the reason that lottery sport launched in 2002, Mega Thousands and thousands mentioned.
Different modifications to debut within the spring embody no breakeven prizes, “that means when a participant wins, they will all the time win greater than the price of the ticket,” Mega Thousands and thousands mentioned.
Mega Thousands and thousands mentioned the overhauled sport will end in jackpots that begin bigger, develop quicker and are greater extra ceaselessly, in addition to higher odds of profitable the jackpot.
“We’re making a sport that each our current gamers and folks new to Mega Thousands and thousands will love and get enthusiastic about enjoying,” Joshua Johnston, lead director of the Mega Thousands and thousands Consortium, mentioned in an announcement. “We count on extra billion-dollar jackpots than ever earlier than, that means creating extra billionaires and plenty of extra millionaires because the jackpots climb, plus this sport will proceed the essential legacy of supporting nice causes in every single place Mega Thousands and thousands is performed.”
Mega Thousands and thousands has produced six jackpot wins which have exceeded $1 billion — most not too long ago in March, when a single ticket bought at a ShopRite liquor retailer in Neptune Township, New Jersey, gained the $1.128 jackpot.
Tickets for the lottery sport are bought in 45 states, Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The present odds of profitable the jackpot are 1 in 302.6 million, in keeping with Mega Thousands and thousands.
