Mega Millions Online Lotto - About Megamillions
Mega Millions is one of the famous international lotteries of USA, same as USA Powerball. This multi-state mega millions online lottery can be played from many states of USA as well as you can buy Mega Millions lottery tickets from any part of the world. This mega jackpots lottery is consistently increasing it's Jackpot prize until someone actually wins the jackpot. strange right?
It's all were started in 1996 as Big Game, but as one of the lucky lottery player won a big jackpot of millions of dollars, the lottery was renamed with "Mega Millions" and that too worth giving name. The Mega Millions lottery is very popular for its mega jackpot prizes, as it has no cap. it's just growing and growing to make thousands of lottery players millionaires.
How to play Mega Millions online lottery?
To play a lucky chance of course you need to buy a Mega Millions lottery ticket worth of just $2 from buyonlinelotto plus it's safe too. You can also choose an extra number called megaplier to multiply your winning prize by 2,3,4 or 5 times. So suppose you won a Mega Millions jackpot worth $1 million, then your prize could be $5 millions.
During every draw, two drums from which numbers and mega ball is selected. There are total 70 numbers and 25 stars, and as said one extra ball is a megaplier that is between 2 and 5. To win a big Mega Millions jackpot, you need to match your lottery ticket's 5 numbers with winning numbers when draw result is out. Also you have too matched a mega ball too.
Now, to play Mega Millions you need to pick 5 numbers between 1 to 70 and one extra number, called "Mega Ball" between 1 to 25. Order doesn't matters. You can use "Quick Pick" option to generate random numbers if you are confused about which to choose. In Quick Pick option computer will generate numbers for you and the winning will be totally depends on your luck.
You can also go for "Just the Jackpot" ticket for $3, which gives you two shots on the Mega Millions jackpot, but it won't help you win the lower-tier prizes.
Just the Jackpot
If want to play for just Big-money megamillions lottery jackpot then "Just the Jackpot" feature is best for you. Lottery players love this new gamble type in form of "Just the Jackpot" that allow players to play for jackpots only. With just $3, lottery player will receives two plays for jackpot only. Other prize levels are not eligible for this special Just the Jackpot.
Multiplies Winning Prize with Megaplier
Head to buy Megaplier for just another $1 and multiply non-jackpot prizes by 2,3,4 or 5 times excluding the jackpot. The megaplier number is drawn randomly before each megamillions drawing held on Tuesday and Friday nights. Overall odds for winning any prize are 1 in 24. The winning prizes associated with megaplier are as follow:
| Match | 2X | 3X | 4X | 5X |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 + 1 | Jackpot | Jackpot | Jackpot | Jackpot |
| 5 | $2,000,000 | $3,000,000 | $4,000,000 | $5,000,000 |
| 4 + 1 | $20,000 | $30,000 | $40,000 | $50,000 |
| 4 | $1,000 | $1,500 | $2,000 | $2,500 |
| 3 + 1 | $400 | $600 | $800 | $1000 |
| 3 | $20 | $30 | $40 | $50 |
| 2 + 1 | $20 | $30 | $40 | $50 |
| 1 + 1 | $8 | $12 | $16 | $20 |
| 1 Mega Ball | $4 | $6 | $8 | $10 |
What about winning payouts for Mega Millions?
Whenever you play Online lottery your first concern is to check how much millionaire you'll become if your luck worked. No worries. Buyonlinelotto brings you the prize tier structure for winning Mega Millions Lottery. All tier-prizes except jackpot are fixed. Jackpot is basically depends on the amount of money based on number of tickets sold. Match all the 6 numbers and you'll become millionaire overnight. But that's not it! Check out the prize structure of nine ways to win different amount of prizes if the big jackpot is not your luck.
| Prize | Number Matched | Mega Ball Matched |
| Jackpot | 5 | 1 |
| $1,000,000 | 5 | 0 |
| $10,000 | 4 | 1 |
| $500 | 4 | 0 |
| $200 | 3 | 1 |
| $10 | 3 | 0 |
| $10 | 2 | 1 |
| $4 | 1 | 1 |
| $2 | 0 | 1 |
The Early Years
Mega Millions has all started its journey as "Big Game" on 31st August in the year of 1996. Initially 6 states were participated in the first drawing held on 6th September 1996 including Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan and Virginia. As the big-label lottery has take a flight to grow in 1997, a Tuesday drawing was added in month of February next year. In the January 1999, players were allowed to choose large numbers as well as a "Cash Payout" option. Later in May that year, New Jersey was added to the list of states participating in megamillions lottery drawings.
The mega lottery has been given a name of "Mega Millions", suits it's mega jackpot prizes after somone has won the jackpot in 2002. The entire game structure and prizes amounts were changed to give more excitement to players. At that time other two became the member of playing the famous big lottery, New York and Ohio. Another states also have joined this community were Washington, Texas and California in 2002, 2003 and 2005 respectively. Later on, many states have joined this super duper lottery and changed luck of many players with multi-mega prizes.
Megamillions has made history till now with world's largest jackpot amount of $656 million drawned in 2012. When it was relaunched with new prize-tier structure in October, 2013, it was allowing lottery ticket holders to win up to $5 million as a second tier prize. With this, mega millions has became first jackpot lottery game to offer this much big prize on second win. within four years, this big-fame USA lottery gave 571 winners, including match 5 winners, 65 to win $1 million with optional megaplier and 28 to bring $5 million home.
Later, mega millions lotto has introduced mega jackpots with higher low-tier prizes. with every draw, these jackpots roll higher and higher along with great changing prize structure allowing players to get more chance to win than earlier. The "Just the Jackpot" option was later introduced in 2017 for players to play only for jackpots.
Top 10 MegaMillions Jackpots over the past years
Source : megamillions.com