SACRAMENTO, Calif., (October 19, 2005) – With Halloween right around the corner, it makes you wonder what kinds of things you could scare up with $108 million, doesn’t it?
It would cost a measly $250,000 to rent out Knott’s Scary Farm and treat 10,000 of your closest friends to their “Halloween Haunt”. Or you and 30 friends could attend a Ghost and Dinner Tour and spend the night on the supposedly haunted ship, “The Queen Mary” for $10,000. Or better yet, rent out the entire ship and have your own Halloween party themed “The Haunted Shipwreck” which would only cost a mere fraction of your jackpot prize.
A single winner of $108 million would receive equal payments of more than $4.15 million a year (before taxes) for the next 26 years. A retailer who sells a winning ticket worth $108 million would receive a bonus of $540,000 for selling the winning ticket.
To purchase your MEGA Millions ticket for Friday’s draw, go to any of the more than 18,000 retailer locations in California by 7:45p.m. Are you having trouble deciding which lottery game to play? Try a “California Combo.” This fun option gives players 5 MEGA Millions plays and 5 SuperLOTTO Plus plays with a single purchase! Now through October 29, you will get two free SuperLOTTO Plus plays with every California Combo purchase.
ABOUT MEGA MILLIONS: MEGA Millions draws occur on Tuesday and Friday nights at 8 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. It was one of the first multi-state lotteries to be introduced to generate large jackpots. Currently, 12 states are part of MEGA Millions, including California, New York, Texas, Ohio, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Virginia, and Washington.