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GreatCaesarsGhost

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3. Good Luck! 1 in 258,890,850

Reply to Jesus Malverde (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2013, 05:32 PM

Dec 2013

They changed the game in October.

From the Ohio Lottery page...

"Mega Millions drawings will still consist of five white balls and one gold Mega Ball, for a total of six winning numbers. Under a new matrix, the number of white balls will increase to 75 and the number of gold balls (the Mega Ball) will decrease to 15. The result will be overall odds of just 1 in 14.7 to win any prize."

The old number of white balls was 56.

http://www.ohiolottery.com/Games/DrawGames/megamillions/The-New-Mega-Millions-Game.aspx

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