Numbers that fell on a Friday night in Atlanta were 2-4-23-38-46, Mega Ball 23.
$ 640 million jackpot to be won. Taken as a lump sum, it will be $ 462 million - or about 347 million after federal income tax. It will be a few hours for more information about the possible winners out.
Before the drawing on Friday night, the lines of lottery tickets, inflated jackpot Mega millions of records has grown to 640 million, largely due to players who have opened their wallets, despite the long odds of success. Across the country, Americans have put down an estimated $ 1.5 billion, the longest of long shots: a finite chance of winning, which may be the biggest lottery win in the world has ever seen.
Coffee worker in Arizona, reported sales of $ 2,600 tickets per customer, while a retired soldier in Wisconsin has doubled its regular weekly ticket costs $ 55. But all must do to win millions of ensuring that payments may be the biggest lottery in the world.
"I feel like crazy to throw this money," said Jesse Carter, who spent $ 55 and donated the last two tickets purchased in a store in Milwaukee on Friday charity. "But it's a chance to take in life, everything you do."
Laura Horsley, which is communications and marketing professional associations, and bought $ 20 million Quick Pick ticket in downtown Washington, DC, Liquor Store on Friday. But Horsley, who said that she will not buy a lottery ticket if the top jackpot of $ 100 million, is real.
"I do not think I will win, and I do not believe in superstition or numbers or something like that," she said. "I just decided I was not far off. I would be crazy not to at least do it."
Thousands of players - who had gathered in the stores in 42 states and Washington, DC, where Mega Millions tickets are sold - all in order.
Kelly Cripe, a representative of Texas Lottery Commission, said on Tuesday, the national sales of Mega Millions drawing was more than $ 839 million. Officials have projected an additional $ 618.5 million in sales before drawing on Friday, however, a number expected to total turnover of more than $ 1.46 billion.
"This is unprecedented," Cripe said Friday via e-mail.
Indiana players managed to get some freebies, like Hoosier Lottery officials handed out free tickets for each of the first 540 Mega Millions players at several points throughout the state on Friday - the plan announced by the jackpot grew to $ 100 million.
In Indianapolis, a college student, Chris Stewart said that he showed in the lottery headquarters at 6:30 in the morning to be first in line.
"I have never seen a jackpot like this before," said Stewart, who bought five extra tickets. "If I win - I mean, wow, I do not know what I do, I really think I could do with it!" ..
The lines were at the door Rosie Coffee Den in northwestern Arizona in the rural community of White Hills, 72 miles south of Las Vegas and one of the closest points in Nevada - which do not give a Mega Millions - for buyers to enter the game
Rosie Christine Millim worker said he was non-stop for four days.
"In one step, I sold $ 2,600 worth, therefore, was a man," she said.
Mike Catalano, chairman of the mathematics department at Wesleyan University Dakota in Mitchell, SD, acknowledges the calculation is clear: the more tickets you buy, the more chances you have of winning. Better than a lot of chances on the possibility, of course.
"You have about 50 times more likely to be struck by lightning than winning the lottery, based on 90 people a year, lightning struck," said Catalano. "Of course, if you buy 50 tickets, you have leveled your chances of winning the jackpot with a thunderbolt."
Based on the average of other states, you are about 8000 times more likely to be murdered than to win the lottery, and about 20,000 times more likely to die in a car accident than hitting the lucky numbers, Catalano said.
David Kramer, a lawyer in Lincoln, Nebraska, buying his Mega Millions ticket was not a "real opportunity to win."
"This is something that within three days, time to dream, that I would do if I win it's a great fun and, frankly, a big statement after a regular day," he said.
Armen Keteyian in the report for the "CBS Evening News", the turnover of the pie jackpot is divided into three methods: About 60 percent goes to the winner, 15 percent for retail, marketing and operations, as well as 25 percent, or about $ 14 billion goes the services of the U.S. government.
And while states spend the money on educational programs, state lottery only covers a portion of public expenditure on education, "according to a poll News CBS.
Eahmer Everett, 80, in St. Paul, Minn., said he plays the lottery "from the beginning."
"If I win, the first thing I would do is buy (Tim) Tebow t-shirt, and I'll stand in front of Tebow," said Eahmer, who bought five tickets on Thursday. "I am with him in accordance with a higher power."
The organizers are pleased to have the lottery mega millions jackpot Friday channels of ticket sales, but even they warn against excessive costs.
"When people ask me, I tell them that the odds of the lottery to make a game of destiny," said Chuck Strutt, executive director of the Association of Multi-State Lottery Urbandale, Iowa company that controls the Mega Millions, Powerball and other lotteries. "Just buy a ticket, sit down and see if the fate of the points the finger at you in that day."
And what happens if you win? Jill Schlesinger CBS MoneyWatch has some tips - including 1) Read the rules on the back of lottery tickets and lottery Web site, 2) create a team which includes interviews of lawyers and financial advisers, and 3) Leave you spend a little money but do not panic.
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