Lottery fever has set in around Massachusetts as the two multi-state jackpot games hit the half-billion dollar range.

Last night’s Powerball drawing boasted an estimated jackpot of $522 million, with a $270 million cash option. Tuesday’s Mega Millions jackpot is estimated at $400 million with a $205 million cash option.

At Ted’s Stateline Mobil in Methuen, up against the New Hampshire border, owner Tony Amico said it’s about time the store sold a 2023 winner.

“We’re due for one,” Amico said.

The store sold a trio of $1 million winning tickets last year. Amico said the store begins seeing more foot traffic when the prizes reach eye-opening amounts.

Once those numbers climb, Amico said, reinforcements are called in to help handle the foot traffic and ensure all five of Ted’s lottery machines are in order.

“I normally have two or three employees here on average,” Amico said. “Today, I’ll have four to five,” he told the Herald Monday.

Amico said it would be tough to even estimate how many people Ted’s sees on a daily basis when the prize amounts are this high. More people come before and after the average working hours, he said.

Ted’s regular customers, he said, will also tend to buy more tickets than they usually do once the prizes climb.

While Massachusetts witnessed more than $12 million in unclaimed lottery winnings last year, Powerball and Mega Millions ticket sales significantly aided the lottery’s fiscal state in 2022, according to Mark William Bracken, the executive director for the Massachusetts State Lottery.

During a December Lottery Commission meeting, Bracken said a series of high jackpots last year  proved to be a  “saving grace” for the lottery’s earnings.

In November 2022 when Powerball reached a whopping $2.04 B, a total of $58.6 million in Powerball tickets were sold in Massachusetts, an increase of almost $10 million from November 2021.  That giant prize was won by a lucky player in California.