No
one held the numbers 8, 24, 30, 45, 61, and the Mega Ball number
12 that were picked earlier in the night, Mega Millions said.
The next drawing for the lottery will take place on Friday, with
the estimated jackpot now rising to $1.25 billion.
This was the 30th drawing since the last Mega Millions winner
hit the jackpot in April. The winner or winners must match the
correct six double-digit numbers on a $2 ticket.
If there is a single winner on Friday, the lucky ticket holder
can have the estimated jackpot paid out over 30 years, or
receive an estimated $625.3 million lump sum payment.
The odds of winning are minuscule: a buyer of a single Mega
Millions lottery ticket has about a 1-in-300 million chance of
containing all the correct numbers.
The jackpot is among the highest Mega Millions prizes ever,
topped only by a $1.537 billion jackpot that a single ticket
holder in South Carolina won in 2018.
But Tuesday's purse was only about half the size of a $2.04
billion Powerball jackpot won by a single-ticket holder in
California in November 2022. That ranks as the largest lottery
prize total in U.S. history.
(Reporting by Rich McKay in Atlanta; Additional Reporting by
Rishabh Jaiswal in Bengaluru; Editing by Gerry Doyle, Raju
Gopalakrishnanand Michael Perry)
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