By Meena Kar
On Friday, New Yorkers optimistically cued up to try their fate at the Mega Million offer of $333. The chances of a lottery ticket holder winning the prize is one in 175711536. If a person bought 176 million combination, each ticket costing him a dollar,he was sure to win $157 million!!

The 12 state lottery is expecting people to buy hundreds of million tickets anticipating that it will serve the purpose of vicariously getting the feel of being a millionaire,since a winner would emerge soon.

Mega Millions projected its jackpot estimate by a raise of $8 million, as per the mind-boggling sales on Friday.

New York Mega Millions spokeswoman Jennifer Givner told sources, “This is a huge jackpot.There’s a lot of excitement about it and we probably made a conservative estimate of the jackpot.”

Sander Sharman a newsstand owner on 9th Avenue,57th Street in New York registered a marveloussale of 4200 tickets in a day as against the normally expected 1200.

Following the draw, 12 states which have participated, will check out if there is a match.While the winners will walk away with 50% of the collection approximately 35% will get divided betwixt the state coffers and the remaining 15% will get distributed among lottery retailers and administrative costs.

A New York City Transit Employee was the last winner in the month of July hen he won an incredible $133 million. The jackpot then receded to its base of $12 million.

Today morning it will be known if there is a sole winner or multiple winner,and if either of it is not the case then the jackpot money will automatically get raised when the money is pooled into formulation of a higher jackpot.