North Carolina– A retired housekeeper has a million reasons to enjoy her retirement. And, now Deanna Sanders, of Graham, has some extra money to deposit into her retirment account.
NC Lottery officials report that Sanders just got one big retirement check by becoming the first $1 million winner of a new feature in the Mega Millions game. Sanders’ $2 Megaplier ticket matched all five white balls in the November 16 drawing.
Officials from the Rhode Island Lottery say a winning Mega Millions ticket from Friday, November 26th, remains unclaimed.
The winning ticket was purchased at Cheapskates on Warwick Avenue in Warwick and is worth 10,000 dollars.
The Rhode Island Lottery was established in 1973 through a Constitutional Convention. Tickets for the first game, The Lot, went on sale May 21, 1974. The first drawing was held at the State House on May 30. Since then, over $1.8 billion has been generated for Rhode Island and shared by all 39 cities and towns throughout the state, and over $5.8 billion has been awarded in prize payouts.
Mega Millions is a US multi-jurisdictional $1 lottery game. Since it replaced The Big Game in May 2002 (see below), Mega Millions’ advertised jackpots have started at $12 million, paid in 26 yearly installments (unless the cash option is chosen), increasing when there is no jackpot winner. Reflecting common practice among American lotteries, the jackpot is advertised as a nominal value of annual installments. A cash value option, when chosen by a jackpot winner, pays the approximate present value of the installments. Mega Millions currently uses a 5/56 (white balls) + 1/46 (the Mega Ball) double matrix to select its winning numbers. Each game costs players $1; in 33 of the 42 Mega Millions jurisdictions, players may opt to pay an extra $1 per game to multiply their non-jackpot prizes by up to 4x with the Megaplier. Mega Millions is drawn at 11 PM Eastern time Tuesdays and Fridays, including holidays. The drawings usually are held in Atlanta, Georgia. Cutoff for ticket sales is 15 minutes before the scheduled drawing.
2by2 is a lottery game played in Kansas, Nebraska, and North Dakota. It is drawn nightly at the Iowa headquarters of the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL, best known for Powerball.) Kansas and Nebraska started the game in 2002; North Dakota joined in 2006.