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A single ticket sold in Georgia matched all six numbers during the estimated $980 million Mega Millions drawing on Friday (November 14), according to MegaMillions.com.
The Mega Millions jackpot will reset to $50 million for Tuesday’s (November 18) drawing. Results from Friday’s Mega Millions game are listed below:
NUMBERS: 1-8-11-12-57
GOLD BALL: 7
Friday’s drawing was the eighth-highest Mega Millions jackpot in the game’s history and the 14th-largest in U.S. lottery history. Mega Millions jackpot previously reset after a single ticket sold in Virginia matched all six numbers during the estimated $348 million Mega Millions drawing on June 27, according to MegaMillions.com.
A player in New Jersey won the $1.13 billion drawing on March 26, 2024, which was the fifth largest in the game’s history and the eighth largest in U.S. history. The jackpot reset four times in January 2023, which included one player in Maine winning the estimated $1.35 billion drawing on January 14, one player in New York winning the following $20 million drawing on January 17, one player in Massachusetts winning the $31 million drawing on January 24 and another player in Massachusetts winning the $31 million drawing on January 31.
The January 14, 2023 Mega Millions drawing was the second-highest in the game’s history and offered the fourth-largest jackpot in the U.S. lottery history. Mega Millions tickets rose from $2 to $5 prior to the April 8 drawing and officials said the increased revenue will improve a player’s odds of winning the jackpot from 1 in 303 million to 1 in 290 million, which will lead to more sales.
“People really want big jackpots,” said Joshua Johnston, the Washington state lottery director for the Mega Millions game, via the New York Post. “We expect to see a sales lift on this.”
Higher ticket prices would allow the jackpot to start at $50 million, rather than the $20 million it resets to after a jackpot hits during the last prior drawing, while the next jackpot would swell even larger if there isn’t a big winner. Additionally, the minimum prize of $10 on a winning ticket will double given the rise in cost for a ticket, according to lottery officials.
Lottery players will reportedly have a 1 in 23 chance to win any prize, an improvement from the 1 in 24 odds prior to the price change, officials confirmed to the New York Post. Mega Millions has only previously changed its price one time since its launch in 2002.

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EVERYONE wants to win the lottery – but what if we told you the secret to scooping the giant £131million Euromillions jackpot tonight?
Lottery experts have exclusively shared their ultimate tips with Sun readers on how to boost your chances of walking away with the entire mega prize up for grabs.
Maths whizz David Hodge, a lecturer in statistics and data analytics at the University of Glasgow, and Simon Horne, from The National Lottery operator Allwyn UK, share their winning formulae.
Plus Lottery Guy, who has been dishing out winning tips on his blog since 2004, shares how he helps players win big.
Millions of us buy a Euromillions ticket each week, which means there is fierce competition for the top £131million jackpot prize up for grabs tonight.
There have been huge jackpots available recently – a record-breaking £208million prize that was won by a lucky Irish ticket holder last month.
You pick five numbers from 1-50 and two lucky stars from 1-12, or you can choose a lucky dip – which is when the numbers are randomly selected for you.
If you’re lucky enough to have the winning ticket tonight, you’ll instantly become richer than the likes of superstars Daniel Radcliffe, Dua Lipa and tennis ace Andy Murray.
From picking your lucky numbers to joining a syndicate, there’s a heap of practical ways to boost your chances of getting richer overnight.
Of course, the only real way of increasing your chances of winning is to buy more tickets.
Make sure you gamble responsibly. Only gamble with money you can afford to lose, and set a money limit before playing.
If you need advice, visit gamcare.org.uk or GambleAware.org.
Do you have a set of numbers you stick to religiously, but have noticed they just aren’t working for you?
Keep an eye on how often your numbers are being drawn, and if they’re not coming up as often as you would like, you can try a different tactic.
The National Lottery app stores all your tickets from draws you have entered.
The app is free to download from either the App Store on iPhone, or the Google Play Store on Android devices.
That means you can go back in and check your most profitable numbers.
Make a spreadsheet of how often your lucky numbers are being drawn, and every three months, see whether it’s worth keeping them or ditching them for alternatives.
Timing matters when it comes to buying your ticket, said Simon.
If you leave it to the last minute, then there’s a risk that you run out of time to buy yours.
You need to buy your ticket before 7:30pm tonight – otherwise you’ll miss out.
“My main advice is not to leave it too late – don’t rush into the newsagents or load up your app at 7:25pm,” he said.
“You might not be able to upload money onto your online account, or buy your ticket, in time, and you could miss the draw.”
You must pick five main numbers between 1-50 for your EuroMillions ticket and two “lucky star” numbers from 1-12.
It may be tempting to pick your and your loved one’s birthday dates as your main numbers with the hope they bring you luck.
But Lottery Guy said it’s best to avoid this tactic.
This is because there will be lots of people picking birthday dates too. Birthday dates are numbers between 1-31.
There’s a greater chance of having to split the pot between other players if you’re lucky enough to hold the winning ticket.
He says: “Avoiding these numbers doesn’t increase your chance of winning, but if you do win, you’re much less likely to split the prize with other winners.
Adrian Bayford became one of the UK's biggest Euromillions winners in 2012 when he scooped the £148.6 million jackpot.
The former postman celebrated his gigantic win by ordering Domino’s pizza for him and his then-wife, Gillian.
Speaking about the win at the time, Gillian said: ” “I checked the numbers on my phone, the TV, the internet — and we just looked at each other and giggled.”
Adrian and his wife divorced just 15 months after their win, with Gillian later saying the money had come between her and her family.
Adrian has splashed his winnings on various ventures since.
He purchased a Grade II listed estate, Horseheath Lodge, in Cambridgeshire for £6.5million, complete with luxurious amenities.
In 2020, he bought two estates in Scotland — he paid £1.1million for one in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, and days later splashed out 1.35million on another plush pad just 12 miles away.
He has also previously run small businesses on his estate, including a record shop, a pub, and even organised a music festival dubbed a ‘mini Glastonbury’ on his Cambridge Estate since 2017.
In 2023, he began renting out a cottage on his property as an Airbnb for £110 a night, and the following year began renting out a farmhouse on the 189-acre estate for extra cash.
Adrian planted grape vines in 2024, aiming to produce sparkling wine. His vineyard is roughly the size of six football pitches.
Together with his fiancée Tracey Biles, he has been growing his own food in a new kitchen garden, as well as creating a large carp pond and raising goats and pigs.
You have to be in it to win it, so if you want the chance of scooping a jackpot, you must buy a ticket.
But certain days are better than others to play.
Lottery Guy said Tuesday is actually the best day to buy a ticket rather than Friday.
He said: “With EuroMillions, Friday is the much more popular day, so you’ve got more competition on a Friday.
“Consider focusing on the Tuesday draw if you want to keep more of that jackpot for yourself.”
YOU'VE got to be in it to win it.
Every time you buy a ticket the odds of winning increase.
But WARNING – only spend what you can afford. At the end of the day, it’s down to luck.
This is why some people prefer to be part of a syndicate, where multiple tickets are bought.
While this means you’ll have to share the pot, the odds become more favourable each ticket you buy.
Probability pro David Hodge said the key to playing the Euromillions is to pick numbers that other players will not.
That’s because, statistically, each number has an equal chance of being drawn, so there is no such thing as a “lucky” number.
He tells Sun money: “Any prize could be theoretically shared, so you will want to be the only one who wins if you do win.
“So that means you need your numbers not to be other people’s numbers. That means avoiding number patterns.”
Picking “boring numbers” – those which do not stand out in any way – is a good tactic, he said.
These are numbers that have been drawn out an average number of times in the Euromillions draws.
So 37, 24, and 13, which has been drawn a mediocre 91 times, could be a good option, as well as 32, which has been drawn 90 times.
“Pick the ones that look boring and that people won’t be interested in,” David adds.
Likewise, don’t pick “overdue” numbers – which are the numbers drawn the least number of times in Euromillions games.
David says picking these numbers is a common tactic players follow.
Again, that means that if you win, there’s a greater chance of splitting your winnings with other people.
“People might look for numbers that haven’t come up very often, because they think they’re due to come up soon,” said David.
“This is nonsense, because past numbers have no effect on what’s going to happen in the future.”
You might be tempted to pick “weird” number combinations thinking that no one else will.
That’s sequences like:
But picking “weird” combinations is a surprisingly common tactic, says David.
“If you think something is a weird combination, it’s likely that other people will think it’s weird too, and will likely pick that combination too.
“That’s because your brain holds onto anything that fits some kind of pattern.”
The key is to avoid number patterns, he says.
What better way of avoiding number patterns than to pick a lucky dip?
This is when the numbers are randomly selected for you by a computer when you buy a ticket at the till.
David says: “Humans are notoriously bad at picking random numbers.
“So it’s likely that your attempt at picking five truly random numbers will probably fail.
“The key is not to be biased towards any number.”
A lottery syndicate is when a group of people put money into a pot for lottery tickets.
There will be one person in charge – called the syndicate manager – who is in charge of buying tickets and sharing out any winnings out among the group.
The syndicate manager will need to register the group with the National Lottery and list themselves as the person in charge.
Playing with a group could be a good way of boosting your chances of winning, as Simon, from The National Lottery operator Allwyn UK, explains.
He says: “If you join a syndicate of 10 people, then there’s 10 tickets and 10 chances of winning, so there’s clearly a greater chance of winning compared to if you just bought your own ticket.
Simon advises players in a syndicate to draw up a list of terms and conditions that they all must agree to and sign.
He adds: “If there’s any confusion or complications down the line, then you can refer back to the agreement and then everyone knows where they stand.
Of course, the biggest downside to a syndicate is that you will have to split the pot among the whole group equally.

So if you played in a group of 10 people and you won the £131million jackpot, each person would walk away with £13.1 million.
Of course, that’s still big winnings to walk away with, but it’s certainly something to consider.
WHO'S bagged the biggest lottery wins? We reveal the top 10 richest players.
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A single ticket sold in Georgia matched all six numbers during the estimated $980 million Mega Millions drawing on Friday (November 14), according to MegaMillions.com.
The Mega Millions jackpot will reset to $50 million for Tuesday’s (November 18) drawing. Results from Friday’s Mega Millions game are listed below:
NUMBERS: 1-8-11-12-57
GOLD BALL: 7
Friday’s drawing was the eighth-highest Mega Millions jackpot in the game’s history and the 14th-largest in U.S. lottery history. Mega Millions jackpot previously reset after a single ticket sold in Virginia matched all six numbers during the estimated $348 million Mega Millions drawing on June 27, according to MegaMillions.com.
A player in New Jersey won the $1.13 billion drawing on March 26, 2024, which was the fifth largest in the game’s history and the eighth largest in U.S. history. The jackpot reset four times in January 2023, which included one player in Maine winning the estimated $1.35 billion drawing on January 14, one player in New York winning the following $20 million drawing on January 17, one player in Massachusetts winning the $31 million drawing on January 24 and another player in Massachusetts winning the $31 million drawing on January 31.
The January 14, 2023 Mega Millions drawing was the second-highest in the game’s history and offered the fourth-largest jackpot in the U.S. lottery history. Mega Millions tickets rose from $2 to $5 prior to the April 8 drawing and officials said the increased revenue will improve a player’s odds of winning the jackpot from 1 in 303 million to 1 in 290 million, which will lead to more sales.
“People really want big jackpots,” said Joshua Johnston, the Washington state lottery director for the Mega Millions game, via the New York Post. “We expect to see a sales lift on this.”
Higher ticket prices would allow the jackpot to start at $50 million, rather than the $20 million it resets to after a jackpot hits during the last prior drawing, while the next jackpot would swell even larger if there isn’t a big winner. Additionally, the minimum prize of $10 on a winning ticket will double given the rise in cost for a ticket, according to lottery officials.
Lottery players will reportedly have a 1 in 23 chance to win any prize, an improvement from the 1 in 24 odds prior to the price change, officials confirmed to the New York Post. Mega Millions has only previously changed its price one time since its launch in 2002.

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FROM buying a Ferrari to holidaying in the Seychelles, we’ve all got a plan for how to splash the cash if we win the EuroMillions.
Players have a chance of scooping a £145million jackpot this evening – and now, top lottery expert Simon Horne exclusively tells Sun readers how to boost your chances of bagging the whole lot.
Millions of us buy a Euromillions ticket each week with the hope of winning a huge windfall.
You pick five numbers from 1-50 and two lucky stars from 1-12, or you can choose a lucky dip – which is when the numbers are randomly selected for you.
The jackpot on offer this evening is £145million – which, although is a huge pot of money, isn’t as big as the record-breaking £208million prize that was won by a lucky Irish ticket holder in June.
It made the lucky winner instantly richer than the likes of Adele, Dua Lipa and Harry Kane.
From picking your lucky numbers to whether you should join a syndicate, there’s a heap of practical ways to boost your chances of getting richer overnight.
Of course, the only real way of increasing your chances of winning is to buy more tickets.
Make sure you gamble responsibly. Only gamble with money you can afford to lose, and set a money limit before playing.
If you need advice, visit gamcare.org.uk or GambleAware.org.
A lottery syndicate is when a group of people put money into a pot for lottery tickets.
There will be one person in charge – the syndicate manager – who will buy tickets and share out any winnings out among the group.
Playing as part of a group could be a good way of boosting your chances of winning, as Simon, from The National Lottery operator Allwyn UK, explains.
“If you join a syndicate of 10 people, then there’s 10 tickets and 10 chances of winning, so there’s clearly a greater chance of winning compared to if you just bought your own ticket,” he said.
The syndicate manager will need to register the group and list themselves as the person in charge with The National Lottery.
Make sure to write all the terms and conditions of the agreement down, and get each person to sign it, said Simon.
“If there’s any confusion or complications down the line, then you can refer back to the agreement and then everyone knows where they stand,” he said.
The big downside to consider being part of a syndicate is that you’ll need to equally split the pot between each person.
So, if you were part of a syndicate of four people, splitting the £145million jackpot four ways would leave you with over £36million each – although that’s still big winnings to walk away with.
You might think that picking up the most common numbers may mean you are more likely to win.
The number 20 has been drawn the most at 111 times, according to Lottery.co.uk, which tracks lottery results.
That’s followed by the number 21 and 23, which has been drawn 109 times, then 42 (107 times) then 29 (104 times).
The most common Lucky Stars are 3, which has been drawn 181 times and 2, which has been drawn 176 times.
But you’re better off picking whichever numbers you feel are best, said Simon.
That’s because, statistically, each number has an equal chance of being drawn.
Many people pick their birthday numbers because they think they are lucky.
“We all have lucky numbers – I know plenty of players who lean on lucky numbers, which could be phone numbers or numbers passed down from family members,” said Simon.
“Every set of numbers has the same chance of coming out.
“The best strategy to play is the one that you think will bring you luck.”
Not sure your lucky numbers are working for you?
You could keep an eye on how often your lucky numbers are being drawn, and if they’re not coming up as often as you would like, you can try a different tact.
The National Lottery app stores all your tickets from draws you have entered.
The app is free to download from either the App Store on iPhone, or the Google Play store on Android devices.
That means you can go back in and check your most profitable numbers.
YOU'VE got to be in it to win it.
Every time you buy a ticket the odds of winning increase.
But WARNING – only spend what you can afford. At the end of the day, it’s down to luck.
This is why some people prefer to be part of a syndicate, where multiple tickets are bought.
While this means you’ll have to share the pot, the odds become more favourable each ticket you buy.
You could make a spreadsheet of how often your lucky numbers are being drawn, and every three months, see whether it’s worth keeping them, or ditching them for alternatives.
According to Lottery.co.uk, the unluckiest Euromillions numbers are
You might want to avoid “unlucky” numbers – which are the ones drawn the least.
These are 22 (66 times), 40 (74 times) and 18 and 43 (78 times).
The National Lottery app is free to download from either the App Store or Google Play.
Timing matters when it comes to buying your ticket, said Simon.
If you leave it to the last minute, then there’s a risk that you run out of time to buy your ticket.
You need to buy your ticket before 7:30pm tonight – otherwise you’ll miss out.

“My main advice is not to leave it too late – don’t rush into the newsagents or load up your app at 7:25pm,” he said.
“You might not be able to upload money onto your online account, or buy your ticket, in time and you could miss the draw.”
BETWEEN them all, the top 10 richest lottery winners have bagged a combined £1.6billion.
But who are the lucky winners? Here’s the top 10 richest players who bagged the jackpot:
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A single ticket sold in Georgia matched all six numbers during the estimated $980 million Mega Millions drawing on Friday (November 14), according to MegaMillions.com.
The Mega Millions jackpot will reset to $50 million for Tuesday’s (November 18) drawing. Results from Friday’s Mega Millions game are listed below:
NUMBERS: 1-8-11-12-57
GOLD BALL: 7
Friday’s drawing was the eighth-highest Mega Millions jackpot in the game’s history and the 14th-largest in U.S. lottery history. Mega Millions jackpot previously reset after a single ticket sold in Virginia matched all six numbers during the estimated $348 million Mega Millions drawing on June 27, according to MegaMillions.com.
A player in New Jersey won the $1.13 billion drawing on March 26, 2024, which was the fifth largest in the game’s history and the eighth largest in U.S. history. The jackpot reset four times in January 2023, which included one player in Maine winning the estimated $1.35 billion drawing on January 14, one player in New York winning the following $20 million drawing on January 17, one player in Massachusetts winning the $31 million drawing on January 24 and another player in Massachusetts winning the $31 million drawing on January 31.
The January 14, 2023 Mega Millions drawing was the second-highest in the game’s history and offered the fourth-largest jackpot in the U.S. lottery history. Mega Millions tickets rose from $2 to $5 prior to the April 8 drawing and officials said the increased revenue will improve a player’s odds of winning the jackpot from 1 in 303 million to 1 in 290 million, which will lead to more sales.
“People really want big jackpots,” said Joshua Johnston, the Washington state lottery director for the Mega Millions game, via the New York Post. “We expect to see a sales lift on this.”
Higher ticket prices would allow the jackpot to start at $50 million, rather than the $20 million it resets to after a jackpot hits during the last prior drawing, while the next jackpot would swell even larger if there isn’t a big winner. Additionally, the minimum prize of $10 on a winning ticket will double given the rise in cost for a ticket, according to lottery officials.
Lottery players will reportedly have a 1 in 23 chance to win any prize, an improvement from the 1 in 24 odds prior to the price change, officials confirmed to the New York Post. Mega Millions has only previously changed its price one time since its launch in 2002.

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