The $910 million pot on the line Friday night will be that high only if a sole player wins and they choose to be paid through an annuity of one immediate payment and 29 annual allotments. The other was sold in Maryland and wins the standard $1 million prize. One, sold in Texas, is worth $4 million because it included the optional Megaplier (available in most states with an extra $1 purchase), which was 4X on Tuesday night. Two tickets for Tuesday’s drawing matched all five white balls to win the game’s second-tier prize. The overall odds of winning any prize is 1 in 24. The game pays out many more smaller prizes, which start at $2. The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are 1 in 302.5 million. Jackpots in the two lottery games grow so large because the steep odds make winning so unlikely, allowing the grand prize to roll over again and again. jackpot was a $2.04 billion Powerball prize won in November 2022. California lottery officials haven’t announced a winner for that jackpot, which was the sixth-largest in U.S. lottery history and follows a $1.08 billion Powerball prize won by a player July 19 in Los Angeles. The new $910 million prize is among the largest in U.S. The absence of a winner for the estimated $820 million jackpot brings the count of fruitless drawings to 28, at least for the big prize. The numbers drawn were: 3, 5, 6, 44, 61 and the yellow ball 25 The Mega Millions jackpot climbed to an estimated $910 million after Tuesday night’s drawing produced no big winners, extending a stretch of bad luck dating back to April.
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