Where does US lottery prize money come from?

[soko]

The Mega Millions is rarely hit more than a few times a year, once every two or three months I think.

[TiK]

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is it harder to win than hitting 7 numbers from 49? thats what it takes to win Super 7 here and the top prize ever was probably no more than 40 mil.

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The chances of winning the jackpot in the Mega Millions drawing are 1 in 175,711,536.

[blinlk182]

This is a multi state lottery. From the wikipedia entry looks like:
Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Virginia, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Washington, Texas and California.

[FlyWf]

Also Mega Millions is a multi-state jackpot and eyeballing it it's got most of the populous states. Canada only has like 35 million people, right?

[TiK]

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Also Mega Millions is a multi-state jackpot and eyeballing it it's got most of the populous states. Canada only has like 35 million people, right?

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California alone has about 33 million people (give or take a million or two).

[Narcileptico]

And Canadians wonder why we always make fun of them....

[kmak]

It is like Social Security. They pay it out over many years and use future ticket sales to make the payments.

[Marc H]

The US Government kidnaps Canadians and ransoms them back to your government for straight cash, homie.

[FortFun]

poor people

[lapoker17]

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poor people

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