NY Mega Millions

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The Mega Millions game takes place in 12 States in the US – California, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Texas, Virginia and Washington. Although some of the states have slightly different bonus games (like in Texas) the people who play the games all have one common goal – they want to win the Mega Millions!

Considering that the prizes rollover quite often and the biggest jackpot to date has been close to $400 million dollars (such a big event that the draw was moved from its usual spot in Atlanta to New York, Times Square) its not wonder people want to win this lottery! Some of the unique features of the US Mega Millions include the fact that the player has to choose whether to take the prize as a lump sum or annually – a lot of lotteries will automatically give you the amount in one lump sum.

The Mega Millions lottery is also played by choosing five balls and one golden number. These draws are made twice a week, Tuesday and on a Friday. Midweek draws are generally speaking less popular that weekend ones (this is the same for the UK Lottery for example were you have a draw on a Wednesday and on a Saturday but the weekend draw is far more popular and therefore has a larger jackpot as more people take part). Even though the Mega Millions Tuesday draw may be less popular and have a smaller jackpot it is worth playing these as you are more likely to have the chance of winning because fewer people are playing.

When picking your numbers try to go for a bit of variety – avoid any rigid patterns like multiples of numbers. Here are some examples of what you should do, like 1, 11, 21, 31, 41 and then 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, for example. The sequence, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 isn’t a great idea either but every week thousands of people will buy this combination believing that they will win the lottery with is because it’s so unlikely to come out, that if it did they would nab the entire jackpot. This is not true because thousands of people buy this sequence every week!

Also remember to choose numbers that are higher numbers – people tend to avoid these because people tend to play birthday numbers and these are 31 or lower because of the dates of the month. Don’t neglect the high numbers from 31- 56 – Mega Millions especially has a lot of high numbers to choose from so to neglect yourself of that part of the table means you are reducing your chances of winning. But at the same time don’t solely cluster your numbers around any area in particular (i.e. Numbers all in 20s, numbers all in 40s) because the chances are, the numbers drawn will be more mixed that that (some high and some low, and some in the middle) although of course there is no guarantee! That is the nature of the lottery.

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