$40 Million is now the starting jackpot in Mega Millions

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Taking the world of lottery and gambling industry with a storm, the Mega Millions jackpot will now kick off from $40 million dollars. Earlier it was of $15 million dollars. The MegaMillions games offer longer spells to the punters. The tickets will be available at $2; i.e., same as the Powerball tickets. The officials have introduced some more changes. Including all five new changes are going to be introduced in MegaMillions lottery games. The below-mentioned list is including all five changes introduced by the Virginia Lottery.

1. A new ticket price
2. New odds
3. Larger secondary prizes
4. Higher starting point for the jackpots
5. An innovative “Just the Jackpot” wager

Just the Jackpot, the newly introduced wager, is likely to enable the players to participate in two plays at the cost of $3. The chance of hitting the jackpot gets longer but the chance of winning the second prize gets shorter. 1 in 302 million is the winning odd for the top prize while the odds of winning the $1 million prize are 1 in 12.6 million. However, the overall chance of winning any prize is 1 in 24 now. But, the MegaMillions players will have to match five numbers along with the Mega Ball number to win the $40 million jackpot.