Only two prizes have grown larger than the massive jackpot that could be won Friday night.
ever up for grabs, making it the latest focus of lotteries that have been conducted in the U.S. and around the world for centuries.Other lotteries elsewhere around the globe offer smaller payouts, though in other ways they are more integrated into life in their countries.
Lotteries remain popular in Europe. The Eurojackpot game paid a $120 million euro prize just last week to someone in Denmark, and a player in the United Kingdom recently won a $230 million euros Euromillions prize. The top prize is 4 million euros . But the standard ticket bought by people is 20-euro “decimo,” or one-tenth of a full ticket, so that people with the winning number on their décimo get 400,000 euros , or about 330,000 euros after taxes.
There also are numerous large lotteries in Asia, such as the Japan Jumbo Draw as well as Japan’s Loto 6 and Loto 7, and the Ultra Lotto in the Philippines.
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