RICHMOND (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Starting April 5, the Virginia Lottery will start selling tickets for a new Mega Millions game. Virginia Lottery Executive Director Khalid Jones says the new Mega Millions will have a larger starting jackpot of $50-million as opposed to the current $20-million start. The other prizes will also be higher. Jones says there will be a higher price of $5-per-ticket as opposed to the current $2. However, the value will be more as the multipliers for which you now have to pay a dollar extra will be automatically included between 2- and- 10-times.
“Virginians have supported the Mega Millions game since we were one of the game’s founding states in 2002,” Jones says.
“We think our players will be excited by a new and improved version the game. Virginia has had nine Mega Millions jackpot wins over the years and hopefully will have more in the future. Of course, as with all our games, the profit from the sale of each ticket goes to support our K-12 public schools.”…