What’s up with all the massive lottery prizes? The latest is a $940 million Mega Millions jackpot with a drawing set for Friday night. The reason behind the big prizes is actually due to math — and more difficult odds.
, which enabled the jackpot to roll over and grow even more quickly as people had more chances to play, and lose. Mega Millions has stuck with the two weekly drawings.Of course, those uber-rich winners aren’t quite as wealthy as it would seem.. Winners almost always choose the cash option, which for Friday’s drawing would be $483.5 million.Still, it’s a lot of money, and lottery players at the Riverside Red X, a large grocery and liquor store in Riverside, Mo.
“I might not be able to use for very long, given my age,” she said. “But who knows, I might live to be 100. You have to dream a little.” Alvin Brockington, of Kansas City, Kansas, said his priorities would be paying his bills, helping everyone in his family, buying a house for his mother and traveling. He said he has a sister in California whom he hasn’t seen for 30 years so he would take the entire family to see her, or fly her and other relatives to visit him.
“Then I would get down on my knees and ask God to lead me to the people who really need help,” he said. “They say money is the root of all evil but it is really the person who has the money, what kind of person they are and what they do with it.”Brockington, a retired railroad worker, said he also plays other lottery games. Noting that the Powerball jackpot was also up to hundreds of millions, he laughed and said, “I’d take that. I’d take $1 million dollars from any game. I’m not greedy.
Robert Bowring, 70, of Kansas City, said after sharing the prize with his family, he would find a good organization that would assist people who need help. Bowring said “everything is about sharing. If you have that much money, you have to spread it around.”Stafford reported from Riverside, Missouri.
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