Following Friday night’s drawing that produced no winner, the Mega Millions jackpot has increased to at least $875 million.
With a Mega Ball of six, the winning numbers for Friday’s $815 million jackpot were 13, 25, 50, 51, and 66.
Tuesday night is when the next drawing will take place. Since December 8, there hasn’t been a jackpot winner.
With five winners who each had a fortune over one billion dollars, Friday’s prize would have been the sixth greatest in the history of the game.
The option to choose between an annuity, which comprises yearly payments spread over 30 years, or a one-time lump sum payout of roughly $385 million in cash before taxes would have been available to any single winning ticket in Friday’s jackpot.
As to the estimate provided by USAMega.com, the annuity option for Friday’s jackpot would have yielded an average of thirty payments, or almost $27 million annually, before taxes.
The greatest Mega Millions jackpot ever and the third-largest lottery jackpot ever was $1.6 billion, won by a single winning ticket in Neptune, Florida, in August of last year.
The greatest Powerball prize in lottery history, $2.04 billion, was won in February 2023 by a winning ticket purchased close to Los Angeles.
One in 302.58 million people have the chance of winning the Mega Millions jackpot.
Tuesday and Friday at 11 p.m. Eastern time is when the Mega Millions drawings take place. Each ticket costs $2 and is available for purchase in 45 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.