LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The seventh-highest Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpot ever may hit Friday night time when the numbers come up at 8 p.m. (PST).
The jackpot has reached $862 million as of Friday afternoon, and will high $940 million for Tuesday if nobody matches the numbers tonight.
Las Vegas residents typically head to The Lotto Retailer, simply throughout the Nevada-California border from Primm. It is about 45 miles from Las Vegas.
Mega Hundreds of thousands hasn’t reached these heights in December earlier than, California Lottery officers stated.
The jackpot has been constructing since September. In that point, the California Lottery has raised an estimated $58.5 million for public schooling simply from Mega Hundreds of thousands gross sales alone, officers stated.
“Raising money for schools is the sole mission of the California Lottery and why we exist in the first place,” California Lottery spokesperson Carolyn Becker stated. “It’s also why we get particularly excited for jackpots to approach a billion dollars because when they do, more people are enticed to play, our sales are stronger, and we raise even more supplemental funding for public education.”
For each $2 Mega Hundreds of thousands ticket offered in California, about 80 cents goes to assist fund public schooling, lottery officers stated.
The final Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpot was hit in Texas.
