You’ll soon find out if you played Friday’s Mega Millions, the 10th largest prize in its 20-year history with an estimated jackpot of $480 million. No need to grab the calculator, that’s about $276 million in cash.
The winning numbers were 8, 20, 26, 53, 64, plus the golden mega ball 15, according to the lottery’s website. The next Mega Millions drawing will be on Tuesday.
The jackpot grew by $40 million after Tuesday’s drawing of 4, 7, 10, 45 and 64, plus the golden Mega Ball 12, failed to produce a jackpot winner.
A total of 1,197,065 winning tickets were sold Tuesday, with prizes ranging from $2 million to $1 million, the lottery said in an online statement. A ticket sold in Illinois matched the five white balls to win the $1 million second prize.
The $20 million jackpot was last won on April 15, and since then there have been more than 14.1 million winning tickets across all prize levels, including 24 worth $1 million or more, according to the lottery.
Only three other jackpots have been won in 2022 – a $426 million prize in California on January 28, $128 million in New York on March 8 and $110 million in Minnesota on April 12. Although your odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350, you know what they say, you can’t win if you don’t play.
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