As jackpots roll over, two chances to win big this weekend
Feelin' lucky?
Well, if you've ever had a dollar and a dream, now is the time to take at least two dollars and spend them -- one each -- on a chance at two big jackpots.
The Mega Millions jackpot, to be drawn Friday at 11 p.m., is $122 million. The Powerball jackpot, to be drawn Saturday at 10:59 p.m., is $212 million.
(Editor's note: There was no Mega Millions jackpot winner on Friday, and the prize now rises to $143 million. The next drawing is Tuesday. To check on New York Lottery prizes and winners, click here.)
Mega Millions, played in 38 states, last had a winner on March 12, when someone in Illinois made every other player ill - hitting numbers 2, 15, 25, 48, 53 and the Mega Ball, 41, for a cool $20 million.
Played in 41 states, as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands, Powerball last had a winner on March 13 - when one winning ticket was sold in New Jersey.
That winner had all five numbers, plus the Powerball - 6, 16, 20, 31, 36 and 8 - and was worth $200 million. A second-place ticket, worth $250,000, was sold in Hollis, Queens.
Now, one month later, both jackpots have grown to a size where it's hard not to dream - especially after no one hit either in the drawings on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Eight tickets - one each in California, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and New Jersey; and two in New York, including one in the Bronx - were second-place winners in the Tuesday MegaMillions drawing. Each of those paid $250,000. But no one had the winning combination of 3, 12, 27, 39, 47 and 32.
And no one had the winning combination of 6, 14, 32, 38, 52 and 20 needed to win the Powerball drawing Wednesday.
All you need to do to win Mega Millions is correctly match five white balls between 1 and 56 and the Mega Ball, which is between 1 and 46.
The odds of winning are a mere 1 in 175,711,536.
To win Powerball, you need to match a five-number set between 1 and 59 and the red Powerball, between 1 and 39.
The odds of winning that?
Try 1 in 195,249,054.
Good luck.
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