lottery: The jackpot offered to a winner of Mega Millions, one of two major lottery games played across the US, was 40m in July, according to The Guardian. Since then no one has won the top prize and the jackpot has continued to roll over. The 1.6bn jackpot, the most ever given away in a US lottery, would be enough to buy an NFL team, the Washington Post and the most expensive home in New York and still have spare change to buy a few islands and private jets. On Friday, 24 rollovers later, it broke the billion-dollar threshold. The huge prize has led to huge interest in the lottery across the US. The Maryland Lottery and Gaming estimates that 75% of the 302m possible number combinations will be chosen by the time of the draw on Tuesday night, up from 59.1% on Friday. Despite a surge of ticket sales, no one has yet won.
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