Mega Millions jackpot rises to $1.1 billion after no winner on Friday night - USA TODAY

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Another Mega Millions drawing, different nighttime without a large winner.

No 1 deed each six numbers and won the estimated $940 cardinal jackpot, pushing the lottery prize to an estimated $1.1 cardinal up of the adjacent drafting Tuesday night.

The prize is present the third-largest successful U.S. history.

There person been 24 drawings without a jackpot winner, stretching backmost for much than 2 months. The winless streak is mostly owed to the game’s agelong likelihood of 1 successful 302.6 million.

The caller estimated prize of $1.1 cardinal is for a victor who chooses an annuity paid annually implicit 29 years. Grand prize winners usually instrumentality the currency option, which for Tuesday night’s drafting volition beryllium an estimated $568.7 million.

"Mega Millions has conscionable reached the $1 cardinal people again. It’s particularly bully to spot the jackpot turn passim the holidays and into the caller year," Pat McDonald, the Ohio lottery manager and pb manager of the Mega Millions Consortium, said successful a connection aboriginal Saturday. "As the jackpot grows, we promote our players to support wrong their amusement fund and bask this jackpot tally close on with us."

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Mega Millions winning numbers

The winning numbers for the drafting Friday night were 3-20-46-59-63, Mega Ball: 13 and Megaplier was 3x.

How bash I play Mega Millions?

To enter Mega Millions, players prime six numbers — or choose to person the lottery instrumentality make a random "Easy Pick" oregon "Quick Pick":

  • Five numbers volition spell from 1 to 70 (white balls) 
  • One fig tin beryllium picked from 1 to 25 (gold Mega Ball) 

If your summons matches each six of the winning numbers from the drawing, you'll triumph the jackpot. There are besides smaller prizes depending connected however galore balls your numbers match.

The outgo to play Mega Millions is $2 a ticket. You tin adhd the Megaplier for $1, which volition summation the magnitude of your imaginable prize up to 5 times the archetypal prize (except for the jackpot).

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Where tin I play Mega Millions?

Mega Millions tin beryllium played successful 45 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Five states — Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Nevada and Utah — do not connection Mega Millions.

What are my chances of winning?

Although the $1.1 cardinal jackpot mightiness beryllium tempting, it's important to enactment that likelihood of taking location a apical prize are highly slim.

The likelihood of winning the jackpot are 302,575,350 to 1. 

The likelihood to lucifer each 5 achromatic balls are 12,607,306 to 1. 

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Top 10 Mega Millions jackpots

According to Mega Millions, determination person lone been 3 jackpots successful the game's past larger than Friday's estimated prize.

Here's a look astatine the apical 10:

  1. $1.537 billion, Oct. 23, 2018: Won successful South Carolina.
  2. $1.337 billion: July 29, 2022: Won in Illinois.
  3. $1.1 billion: Jan. 10: Active.
  4. $1.05 billion, Jan. 22, 2021: Won successful Michigan.
  5. $656 million, March 30, 2012: Three winners successful Illinois, Kansas, Maryland. 
  6. $648 million, Dec. 17, 2013: Two winners successful California, Georgia.
  7. $543 million, July 24, 2018: Won successful California.
  8. $536 million, July 8, 2016: Won successful Indiana.
  9. $533 million: March 30, 2018: Won successful New Jersey. 
  10. $522 million: June 7, 2019: Won successful California.

Largest lottery prizes successful history

Here's a look at the apical 10 largest lottery prizes, betwixt some Powerball and Mega Millions:

  1. $2.04 billion, Powerball, Nov. 7, 2022: Won successful California.
  2. $1.586 billion, Powerball, Jan. 13, 2016: Three winners successful California, Florida, Tennessee.
  3. $1.537 billion, Mega Millions, Oct. 23, 2018: Won successful South Carolina.
  4. $1.337 billion, Mega Millions, July 29, 2022: Won successful Illinois.
  5. $1.1 billion: Jan. 10: Active.
  6. $1.05 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 22, 2021: Won successful Michigan.
  7. $768.4 million, Powerball, March 27, 2019: Won successful Wisconsin.
  8. $758.7 million, Powerball, Aug. 23, 2017: Won successful Massachusetts.
  9. $730 million, Powerball, Jan. 20, 2021: Won successful Maryland.
  10. $699.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 4, 2021: Won successful California.

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Contributing: The Associated Press, Olivia Munson and Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY.

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