ADVISORY/PA Lottery's Super 6 Lotto Rolls to $45 Million -- Largest Jackpot in North America.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Pennsylvania Lottery's Super 6 Lotto game rolled to $45 million for Wednesday, Nov. 4, 1998 drawing, making it the largest jackpot in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Dan Cook, Lottery lottery, scheme for distributing prizes by lot or other method of chance selection to persons who have paid for the opportunity to win. The term is not applicable when lots are drawn without payment by the interested parties to determine some matter, e.g. Executive Director, "No one matched all six numbers from Saturday's drawing so we rolled the jackpot to $45 million. Forty-one lucky players matched five of the six numbers drawn on Saturday with a prize value of $4,635 for each winning second place ticket." Since the Super 6 Lotto game debuted Sept. 12, 1998, no one has won the top prize. In order to win the top prize, players must select six numbers from a field of one to 69. If you match all six numbers with those drawn by the Lottery, you win the jackpot prize. Odds of winning the top prize are 1 in 39.9 million. Overall odds of winning any prize are approximately 1 in 48. Players get three plays on each $1 ticket. The Super 6 Lotto top prize is paid in a 26-year annuity annuity: see insurance. annuity Payment made at a fixed interval. A common example is the payment received by retirees from their pension plan. There are two main classes of annuities: annuities certain and contingent annuities. , or players may select the advertised CASH VALUE, prior to purchase. Pennsylvania Lottery The Pennsylvania Lottery is the state lottery of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It was created by the Pennsylvania Legislature on August 26, 1971 and that October, Henry Kaplan was appointed as its first Executive Director. The Lottery premiered on March 7, 1972. players must be 18 years of age and all Lottery proceeds benefit older Pennsylvanians. |
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