Billion Dollar Extravaganza Second Chance Drawing (2024)

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Has anyone won the billion dollar extravaganza? ›

Desiree Fortini-Craft is the third and final winner of the top prize in the Massachusetts State Lottery's "Billion Dollar Extravaganza" game - and it's not the first time she's hit big on a scratch ticket. She claimed her winnings one day after the Lottery announced a second top winner in the $50 instant game.

In 2020, the Mass Lottery added a ticket scanning feature to its app, allowing customers to scan tickets to see if they are winners. Customers who have already registered to use this function now have access to mobile cashing. Nearly 67,000 users have registered to use these features.

Match any of your numbers to any of the WINNING NUMBERS, win prize shown. Get a “Star” symbol, win prize shown for that symbol. Get a “5X”, “10X”, “20X”, “50X”, “100X” or "500X" symbol and win 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 or 500 TIMES the prize respectively.

All eligible tickets purchased from licensed Mass Lottery retailers may be entered into Second Chance Drawings. Entries must be submitted through the internet at www.masslottery.com or through the Mass Lottery app. Only Entries received at the JAWS Mass Lottery website or Mass Lottery app are eligible.

Yanira Alvarez won the $1.08 billion jackpot in July 2023 after visiting Las Palmitas Mini Market in downtown Los Angeles, lottery officials said. When Alvarez won the jackpot, the Powerball had held 39 straight drawings without a winner.

Edwin Castro of California claimed his $2.04 billion Powerball prize on Valentine's Day 2023. He took the lump sum of $997.6 million, just shy of $1 billion, from the November 2022 drawing. Only once in the history of the game did Powerball reach a $2 billion grand prize. Mega Millions has yet to achieve this.

Taxes have nothing to do with age, but with income. Federal income tax laws are the same whether in GA or any other state. Lottery winnings are considered ordinary taxable income for both federal and state tax purposes, so your winnings are taxed the same as your wages or salary.

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Take your signed winning ticket and identification documents to an authorized lottery claim center or the Massachusetts State Lottery Commission. You can find the nearest claim center on the official lottery website. 6. Fill out a claim form at the claim center or request one to be sent to you by mail.

If the next draw produces a winning ticket, the winner will have their choice between a $1.04 billion payout over 30 years or a lump sum payment estimated at $478.2 million. A 24% federal tax withholding is taken right away, dropping the lump sum estimate to about $363.4 million.

Who bought the billion dollar lottery ticket? ›

Well, according to the California Lottery, that lucky winner has claimed her prize! Lottery officials released the winner's name Friday, identifying her as Yanira Alvarez. She bought the ticket at Las Palmitas Mini Market in July 2023, ending a 39-draw jackpot run for Powerball.

The Powerball jackpot officially hit $1 billion on Monday, the game's fifth-largest grand prize. There are two payout options for the lucky winner: a lump sum of $483.8 million or an annuity worth $1 billion. Both are pretax estimates.

Once registered, you can submit your non-winning scratch-off tickets or lottery numbers for a second chance to win. Notification: If you win in the 2nd Chance draw, the California Lottery will notify you via the contact information you provided when you registered your account.

2nd Chance draws take place every week after the entry deadline at 11:59 p.m. on Saturday. Entries submitted after 11:59 p.m. will be entered into the following week's draw. Submit up to 500 codes each month. Each code is a draw entry that's automatically placed into all applicable draws at least once.

To celebrate the launch of our much-anticipated $10 JAWS instant ticket, we're turning our headquarters into our own version of Amity Island, with JAWSome chances to win JAWS/Lottery merchandise prizes. We will also be hosting a special edition of Cash Wheel Live!

In November of 2022, Edwin Castro of Altadena struck it rich on a $2.04 billion Powerball ticket – the largest lottery prize in U.S. history.

Billion Dollar Extravaganza is an instant game launched in February with a top prize of $25 million.

Although the $1.1 billion jackpot might be tempting, it's important to note that odds of taking home a top prize are extremely slim. The odds of winning the jackpot are 302,575,350 to 1.