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Jun 14, 2004, 8:30 am (Post a comment)
Wednesday jackpot a record; Mega Millions at $100 million
People with lotto fever will have a few more days to try their luck at Lotto Texas: there were no winners in Saturday night's record $100 million drawing.
In the final hour before the drawing, Texans and those who hoped to get lucky in the Lone Star State snatched up 28,060 tickets a minute, apparently undeterred by the one-in-47.7 million odds of winning.
Total sales leading up to the drawing topped $21 million, the Texas Lottery Commission said.
No ticket matched the winning numbers of 10-15-20-29-35 and bonus ball 16, pushing the jackpot for Wednesday's drawing up to $120 million the highest in the country.
The drawing for the estimated $100 million Mega Millions jackpot will be Tuesday night.
In Saturday's drawing, 27 tickets matched five numbers for a prize of $7,017. And 173,636 matched one number plus the bonus ball for a prize of $3.
AP
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