The Biggest USA Mega Millions Lottery Jackpots
In its time, the USA Mega Millions Lottery has created many instant millionaires; counting also the people who have won remarkable lower tier prizes and had their lives changed by the winnings. This Mega Millions Lotto is a famous lottery game in the United States including the whole world because of the big prize winnings. As a matter of fact this is very distinct for its 9 levels of division prizes. It is also notable for its megaplier draw that allow lower tier prize winners to have their winning are doubled, tripled or even quadrupled on the same night.
US Mega Millions Lotto has made a name in the lottery world since its beginning. But lately, it has created even more fuss about its upcoming draws as the jackpot prize goes up to $476 million to $500 million to $540 million to $640 million and finally to $656 million in March 2012. Everyone went crazy about the top prize and this made all the lotto retail outlets always flooded with ticket buyers. So far this was the biggest jackpot prize in the USA Mega Millions Lottery’s history. They said the prize was given to three winners coming from three different states – Kansas, Illinois and Maryland. All three of them received a cash lump sum of $105.1 million after tax. Ticket sellers were also excited about this as they are also qualified to receive lottery bonuses for having sold the winning tickets. They are actually winners too and they will receive an amount from $10,000 to $500,000 depending on their ticket sales too.
This was not the first time that people went wild over purchasing their tickets for a Mega Millions Lottery draw. Big jackpot prizes were also given in March 2007 by the amount of $390 million and January 2011 with the amount of $380 million.
