{"id":16607,"date":"2023-08-09T03:14:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T08:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=16607"},"modified":"2023-08-10T03:15:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T08:15:54","slug":"1-58-billion-mega-millions-jackpot-is-third-largest-in-us-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=16607","title":{"rendered":"$1.58 billion Mega Millions jackpot is third-largest in US history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lottery players will have another shot Tuesday night at a massive Mega Millions prize that ranks as the third-largest jackpot<\/a> in U.S. history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The estimated $1.58 billion prize has been gradually building for months thanks to 31 straight drawings without a jackpot winner. The last time someone won the game\u2019s top prize was April 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each drawing without a winner pushes the prize closer to the record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot that someone in California won last year. The second largest in size was in 2016, when the Powerball jackpot reached a nearly identical amount of $1.586 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mega Millions jackpot winners are so rare thanks to odds<\/a> of one in 302.6 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The $1.58 billion payout would go to a winner who opts for an annuity, doled out over 30 years. But people usually prefer a lump sum option, which for Tuesday\u2019s jackpot would be an estimated $783.3 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The money would be subject to federal taxes. Many states also tax lottery winnings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mega Millions is played in 45 states<\/a>, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lottery players will have another shot Tuesday night at a massive Mega Millions prize that ranks as the third-largest jackpot in U.S. history. The estimated $1.58 billion prize has been gradually building for months thanks to 31 straight drawings without a jackpot winner. The last time someone won the game\u2019s top prize was April 18. Each drawing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21325,9867,1938,21327,21329],"class_list":["post-16607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-1-58-billion-en","tag-american-history","tag-mega","tag-million-dollar-jackpot-en","tag-prize-money-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16609,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16607\/revisions\/16609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}