There is still hope of becoming a multimillionaire quickly.
None of the tickets sold for Friday’s Mega Millions drawing won the jackpot, and the prize has risen to an estimated $800 million, with a cash payout option of $401.8 million for Tuesday’s drawing.
The winning numbers in Friday’s drawing were 6, 23, 41, 59, 63 and for Mega Ball it was 25.
Friday’s jackpot reached $740 million with a cash payout of $366.3 million.
Tuesday’s $800 million jackpot drawing will be the game’s seventh-highest total, surpassed only by the six jackpots that have exceeded $1 billion.
The last winning jackpot ticket was sold in Illinois on June 4 and had a total value of $552 million.
In the 27 drawings since then, 20.7 million winning tickets have been sold, including 57 secondary prizes worth $1 million or more.
Six tickets worth $1 million were won in Friday’s drawing, and a ticket sold in Ohio is worth $2 million after the player chose the optional Megaplier.
Forty-nine other winners from Friday’s drawing were able to claim a third prize of $10,000, and 10 of those tickets opted for the Megaplier, doubling their winnings.
According to a lottery press release, more than 1.6 million winning tickets were sold in Friday’s drawing.
Two Mega Millions jackpots have been won this year, including a $1.128 billion ticket that won in the March 28 drawing and was sold at a ShopRite store in Neptune Township in Monmouth County.
The March billion-dollar jackpot has still not been claimed, but the winner has one year from the drawing date to claim their winnings.
In July, a $221 million Powerball ticket was sold at a Lindenwald supermarket to a regular customer who worked as a bus driver.
The next drawing will take place on Tuesday, September 10th at 11pm.
The odds of winning any prize on Tuesday are 1 in 24 and the jackpot is 1 in 302,575,350.
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