By The Associated Press
The Mega Millions jackpot climbed to an estimated $910 million after Tuesday evening’s drawing produced no massive winners, extending a stretch of unhealthy luck relationship again to April.
The numbers drawn have been: 3, 5, 6, 44, 61 and the yellow ball 25
The absence of a winner for the estimated $820 million jackpot brings the rely of fruitless drawings to twenty-eight, at the very least for the massive prize.
The new $910 million prize is among the many largest in U.S. lottery historical past and follows a $1.08 billion Powerball prize received by a participant July 19 in Los Angeles. California lottery officers haven’t introduced a winner for that jackpot, which was the sixth-largest in U.S. historical past.
The largest U.S. jackpot was a $2.04 billion Powerball prize received in November 2022.
Jackpots within the two lottery video games develop so giant as a result of the steep odds make profitable so unlikely, permitting the grand prize to roll over repeatedly. The odds of profitable the Mega Millions jackpot are 1 in 302.5 million.
The recreation pays out many extra smaller prizes, which begin at $2. The total odds of profitable any prize is 1 in 24.
Two tickets for Tuesday’s drawing matched all 5 white balls to win the sport’s second-tier prize. One, bought in Texas, is price $4 million as a result of it included the elective Megaplier (accessible in most states with an additional $1 buy), which was 4X on Tuesday evening. The different was bought in Maryland and wins the usual $1 million prize.
The $910 million pot on the road Friday evening might be that top provided that a sole participant wins they usually select to be paid by an annuity of 1 instant cost and 29 annual allotments. But jackpot winners practically all the time take the money in a lump sum, which for Friday evening’s drawing could be an estimated $464.2 million.
Mega Millions is performed in 45 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”