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No ticket matched
all of the winning numbers - 29, 46, 53, 64, 73 with the Mega
Ball 10 - selected at 11 p.m. EDT, Mega Millions said in a
statement.
The Mega Millions game is played in 44 states, Washington, D.C.
and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The odds of winning this jackpot
are one in nearly 259 million.
The next drawing is Friday at 11 p.m. EST.
The jackpot has been growing since early March, when a
Washington state man snagged $157 million with his winning
ticket.
Each $1 ticket sold makes up the hefty prize, which was worth
$357 million on Tuesday evening if a winner chooses an immediate
cash payout instead of an initial payment and then 29 annual
payments.
Ticket sales typically increase as the prize grows, lottery
officials said.
The current prize is the game's biggest since December 2013,
when holders of two tickets sold in California and Georgia
shared a $648 million jackpot. The largest Mega Millions
jackpot, worth $656 million, was sold the prior year.
In January, three winning Powerball tickets were sold in
Florida, Tennessee and California to claim a share of nearly
$1.6 billion, the largest prize to have been won on a single
lottery game anywhere in the world.
On social media on Tuesday, ticket holders fantasized about
their plans if they won the prize, including plans to buy
expensive clothing and even sports teams.
"If I win tonight's Mega Millions, I'm going to buy my own
basketball league," comedian Spencer Hicks tweeted.
(Reporting by Laila Kearney in New York and Brendan O'Brien in
Milwaukee; Editing by Matthew Lewis)
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