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(AFP) .- The US Mega Millions lottery will put $ 1 billion into play tonight.
The lottery of the American lottery Mega Millions It will put Friday a whopping $ 1,000 million, which would represent the biggest prize of a game of chance in the world in case there is only one winner.
The draw will take place at 23:00 local time (03:00 GMT) in the studies of Atlanta WSB-TB, but it can take several hours to determine if someone stays with the jackpot.
Long queues were formed Friday morning in kiosks and shops selling tickets for this lottery covering 44 states. United States, the federal capital Washington and the Virgin Islands.
Potential winners will have the opportunity to receive their prize in 30 installments over 30 years, initially obtaining a reduced amount.
In the case of a single winner, the jackpot would be the world record of a lottery: $ 1 billion or $ 565 million if the lucky one prefers to receive everything at the same time.
Mega Millions was created in 2002. Its formula has been modified several times in order to reduce the probability of taking the big one, which has allowed to increase the jackpot regularly.
Each ticket costs $ 2 and the probability of winning fat is now one in 302.5 million.
In the United States, lottery winnings are subject to taxes.
According to the Mega Millions website, if only one winner chooses to receive his prize at once, he would get $ 429 million after tax reduction.
To date, the record won in the lottery comes from Mavis Wanczyk, a 53-year-old mother who, in August 2017, won the Powerball Jackpot, the other big American lottery, which stood at 758 , $ 7 million.
She opted for full payment, so the sum fell to $ 480.5 million and $ 336 million after tax.
In January 2016, the Powerball jackpot was up to 1,580 million euros, but three winners shared the amount.
The Spanish Christmas lottery "El Gordo" has offered several times more than 2,000 million euros in profits, but works with groups of banknotes bearing identical numbers, thus limiting individual earnings.
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