Mega Millions jackpot gets closer to $1 billion after no big winner last night

Mega Millions jackpot gets closer to $1 billion after no big winner last night

The Mega Millions jackpot grew to an estimated $965 million ($445.3 million cash) after no one won the grand prize following Tuesday night’s drawing.

Here are the numbers drawn for the Tuesday, November 111 drawing: white balls 10, 13, 40, 42, and 46, and gold Mega Ball 1

In a news release early this morning, Mega Millions said that no ticket matched all six numbers pulled in Tuesday night’s drawing.

“In the November 11 drawing, there were 809,030 winning tickets across all prize tiers, for total nationwide winnings of more than $27.9 million.

Three tickets matched the five white balls to win the game’s second-tier prize. One, sold in Arizona, had the 5X multiplier for a $5 million prize; the two others had the 3X multiplier for a $3 million prize and were sold in Iowa and New York,” Mega Millions said early Wednesday.

The odds of winning any prize are 1 in 23, while the odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 290.5 million.

The next drawing will be held Friday at 11 p.m. ET, with the jackpot expected to surpass $1 billion.

Changes to Mega Millions in April more than doubled the ticket price but slightly improved the odds of winning. Each ticket costs $5 per play and includes multipliers of 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, and 10x.

Mega Millions, sold in 45 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands, is the nation’s most widely played multistate jackpot game and the only lottery with seven jackpots exceeding $1 billion.

The most recent billion-dollar win occurred in December, when a winner claimed $1.269 billion before taxes. The current record for the highest Mega Millions jackpot is $1.6 billion, awarded to an anonymous winner in Florida in 2023.

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