After a busy weekend in the UK for Lotto enthusiasts – the Euromillions Mega Friday Draw on Friday night making 25 millionaires and giving them a Private Island getaway in the Millionaire Maker draw plus the UK Lotto Draw having a nice rollover jackpot on £8.8 million on Saturday night you could be assured that for a while all was quiet in “Lottery Land”.
However , our blog readers from across the pond have alerted us to the fact that the two giant Lottery games in the USA , the Megamillions and Powerball Lotteries are still building up huge jackpots and merrily rolling over week by week – so time for an update and some due diligence !
The Megamillions Lottery Draw took place on Friday 31st October with the winning numbers 11-29-36-58-67 being drawn plus the Megaball of 15 – no ticket holders matched the five main numbers and Megaball thus the $284 million jackpot was not won . Five ticket holders did match the five main balls picking up the second prize – two winning tickets were sold in California , two in New Jersey and one in New York – the Californian ticket holders won $604,409 each , with the ticket holders from New Jersey and New York winning $1 million each.
The Megamillions Jackpot will therefore rollover to an estimated $321 million ( $194.1 million in cash ) in the next Megamillions Draw scheduled to take place on Tuesday 4th November 2014 .
In the other giant Lottery game across the pond the Powerball, the rollover jackpot story is similar with the jackpot increasing to levels that certainly warrant close attention from keen Lotto players . In the Powerball Draw last night ( Saturday 1st November 2014) the five main numbers drawn were 01-03-13-25-38 with the Powerball of 17. No ticket holders matched the five main balls and Powerball thus the $159 million jackpot was not won . Four ticket holders did scoop the second prize by matching the five main numbers – the winning ticket holders came from California , Florida , Illinois and Minnesota . The ticket holder from California won $360,931 with the ticket holders from Florida, Illinois and Minnesota winning $1 million each.
The Powerball Jackpot will therefore rollover to an estimated $178 million ( $111.1 million in cash ) in the next Powerball Draw which is scheduled to take place on Wednesday 5th November 2014.
With such a large jackpots up for grabs the perplexing question for the Lotto Central team is whether to play the Megamillions and Powerball games next week on a single ticket or as part of a Lottery Syndicate. There is of course any easy answer to this perplexing question – do both !
So we are therefore off to our favourite international Lottery ticket provider , the Lotter to get on Tuesday and Wednesday night’s draws with a single ticket – click here if you would like to do likewise !
For our syndicate entry we will head over to PlayLottery who offer chances to partake in Lottery Syndicates in major lotteries all over the world – click here if you would like to join us !
Good luck everyone !
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