With over $1.3 billion up for grabs in this weekend’s Mega Millions and Powerball drawings, the North Carolina Education Lottery wants to remind players to double check their tickets.
Both games offer players nine ways to win. In Wednesday’s drawing, 48,014 Powerball tickets sold in North Carolina won a prize. One of those was a $50,000 prize. In Tuesday’s drawing, 93,726 Mega Millions tickets sold in the state won a prize. Three of those were $10,000 prizes.
Prizes can range from $2 to $5 million depending on the game and type of ticket a player buys.
Players have 180 days to claim a draw game prize. If it’s a prize under $600 the player can claim it at any store that sells lottery tickets. If the prize is between $600 and $99,999 the player can claim it at any of the six lottery claim centers in the state. If the prize is over $100,000, a player must come to lottery headquarters in Raleigh.
The Mega Millions jackpot for Friday is $970 million annuity worth $548.6 million cash. This is the largest Mega Millions jackpot on record, and the second largest jackpot in U.S. history. The Powerball jackpot for Saturday is $430 million or $248 million cash.
The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are 1 in 302.5 million. The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.
So far, four North Carolinians have won the Powerball jackpot, with wins ranging from $74.5 to $188 million, and two people have won the Mega Millions jackpot, taking home prizes of $12 million and $57 million.
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