{"id":888,"date":"2024-10-29T06:43:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T06:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lotterycurrent.com\/blog\/?p=888"},"modified":"2024-10-29T10:35:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T10:35:29","slug":"starting-in-april-2025-mega-millions-tickets-will-increase-from-2-to-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lotterycurrent.com\/blog\/starting-in-april-2025-mega-millions-tickets-will-increase-from-2-to-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting in April 2025, Mega Millions tickets will increase from $2 to $5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of America\u2019s favorite lottery games Mega Millions\u00a0is going to dramatically increase the price of a Mega Millions ticket. The price of a Mega Millions ticket will more than double next year as part of some big changes coming to the lottery game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting in April 2025, Mega Millions tickets will increase from $2 to $5, Mega Millions\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.megamillions.com\/News\/2024\/Mega-Millions-To-Get-MEGA-Enhancements-in-April-20.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a>\u00a0on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This price increase will be the second price adjustment since Mega Millions launched in 2002,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other notable changes that are coming in the\u00a0spring include no breakeven prizes, &#8220;meaning when a player wins, they&#8217;ll always win more than the cost of the ticket, Let\u2019s see how long it takes for Powerball to change their prices Stay tuned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of America\u2019s favorite lottery games Mega Millions\u00a0is going to dramatically increase the price of a Mega Millions ticket. The price of a Mega Millions ticket will more than double next year as part of some big changes coming to the lottery game. Starting in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mega"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lotterycurrent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lotterycurrent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lotterycurrent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lotterycurrent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lotterycurrent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lotterycurrent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"https:\/\/www.lotterycurrent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lotterycurrent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lotterycurrent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lotterycurrent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lotterycurrent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}