Did anyone win the $720M Mega Millions jackpot?

 Did anyone win the $720M Mega Millions

 jackpot?

No anyone won the Mega Millions jackpot since April 18. 

The Mega Millions jackpot is very closer to the $1 billion mark after no one won the $720 million jackpot in Friday's drawing. The jackpot now stands at $820 million for the next Tuesday night drawing.

Eight tickets won the game's lower-tier prizes. Two in Florida, New Jersey, and North Carolina, and one each in California and Michigan. All the tickets won $1 million by matching all five white balls numbers.

It's a big month of lottery prizes for lucky winners. On Wednesday, a ticket sold in downtown Los Angeles won the $1 billion Powerball jackpot. 

Mega Millions hasn't been won since April 18. When a 71-year-old man from New York won the state's largest Mega Millions jackpot ever. Johnnie Taylor of Howard Beach in Queens, New York, won $476 million but opted for the cash option — a lump sum of more than $157 million after taxes.

Winners almost always take the cash option. But they do have a choice to get the full amount instead of regular payments over 29 years. The cash option for Tuesday's drawing is $422 million.

Mega Millions winning numbers for July 21, 2023: 

The winning numbers were 29-40-47-50-57, Mega Ball 25, and Megaplier 2X.

When Mega Millions drawing take place?

Mega Millions drawings take place on Tuesday and Friday at 11 p.m. Eastern Time.

What are the Powerball largest lottery jackpots ever?

1. $2.04 billion, Powerball, Nov. 8, 2022 (one ticket, from California)

2. $1.586 billion, Powerball, Jan. 13, 2016 (three tickets, from California, Florida, and Tennessee)

3. $1.537 billion, Mega Millions, Oct. 23, 2018 (one ticket, from South Carolina)

4. $1.35 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 13, 2023 (one ticket, from Maine)

5. $1.337 billion, Mega Millions, July 29, 2022 (one ticket, from Illinois)

6. $1.08 billion, Powerball, July 19, 2023 (one ticket, from California)

7. $1.05 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 22, 2021 (one ticket, from Michigan)

8. $820 million, Mega Millions (estimated)

9. $768.4 million, Powerball, March 27, 2019 (one ticket, from Wisconsin)

10. $758.7 million, Powerball, Aug. 23, 2017 (one ticket, from Massachusetts)

Indiana and Kentucky amongst the luckiest states to win the lottery