Mega Millions jackpot rises to $910 million after

no one won $820 million, and could reach $1

billion


The Mega Millions jackpot is now an estimated $910 million. In Tuesday night's drawing, no anyone matched the ticket to win $820 million. It's the fifth-largest jackpot in the Mega Millions game's history.

The winning numbers for Tuesday's estimated jackpot were 3, 5, 6, 44, and 61, and a Mega Ball of 25.  

The next drawing will be Friday night, and the grand prize will be estimated at $910 million. 

Since April 18, there hasn't been a Mega Millions jackpot winner, and the jackpot had jumped by about $100 million since last Friday's drawing.

If a single winning ticket had been sold for Tuesday's drawing, the winner would have had the option of taking an estimated lump sum payment of $418 million before taxes or going with the annuity option.

It consists of a lump sum payment followed by 29 annual payments that eventually equal the full jackpot after tax. The cash option for Friday night's estimated $910 million jackpot would be $464.2 million.

The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are approximately 1 in 302.58 million.


There have been four Mega Millions jackpots north of $1 billion, with the largest being a $1.537 billion jackpot in October of 2018, claimed by a single winning ticket sold in South Carolina. In January, a winning ticket for a $1.348 billion jackpot was sold in Maine.

Last week, Powerball single winning ticket was sold in downtown Los Angeles for the $1.08 billion jackpot, the sixth-largest in U.S. lottery history. The winner has yet to come forward to claim their prize.

Mega Millions of tickets cost $2 each and are sold in all states except Alabama, Utah, Alaska, Hawaii, and Nevada. They're also sold in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

According to the game, half the proceeds from each ticket sold remain in the state where the sale occurred, with that money going to support "designated good causes and retailer commissions."

 In California, for example, all lottery proceeds go to public education, which in the 2021-22 fiscal year was about $2 billion.