The grand prize in Friday night's drawing will be an estimated $1.02 billion, lottery officials said, though that's certain to grow as more and more tickets are bought as that drawing approaches.
, Kilbane said in a statement. Many attempts to reach the site resulted in error messages before it was determined that there weren't any grand prize winners.
To put those in perspective, your chance of dying in a car crash — something to consider as you drive to the mini-mart for a lottery ticket — is around one in 101 over a lifetime, according to the nonprofit National Safety Council.Meanwhile, even if you somehow beat the odds, you won't get the full payout. First, that's the amount for winners who take the annuity option, paid over 30 annual payments.
And then there are federal taxes, which cut the payout even further. State taxes also could cut into that amount depending on where the winner lives. Still a fortune, but a smaller fortune.
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