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NEW YORK (WABC) -- The winning numbers are successful for Friday's whopping $940 cardinal Mega Millions jackpot.
Here are Friday night's winning numbers: 20, 63, 46, 59, 3 and a Megaball of 13.
It's the nation's sixth largest lottery prize.
No 1 has deed the large jackpot aft much than 20 drawings.
Friday night's jackpot is the largest since a $2.04 cardinal Powerball prize was won Nov. 8 successful California. A victor hasn't been announced for that record-setting payout.
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The recognition for the caller large prizes is really owed to mathematics -- and much hard odds.
In the autumn of 2017, lottery officials approved changes to Mega Millions that importantly lengthened the likelihood from 1 successful 258.9 cardinal to 1 successful 302.6 million. They made akin changes to Powerball successful October 2015, worsening the likelihood from 1 successful 175.2 cardinal to 1 successful 292.2 million.
The thought was that by making jackpots little common, summons gross could physique up week aft week, creating elephantine prizes that would pull attraction and propulsion successful much players who had grown blasé astir $100 cardinal oregon $200 cardinal apical prizes.
In August 2021, Powerball besides added a 3rd play drawing, which enabled the jackpot to rotation implicit and turn adjacent much rapidly arsenic radical had much chances to play, and lose. Mega Millions has stuck with the 2 play drawings.
Thanks to those moves, 9 of the apical 10 largest lottery prizes person been won since 2017.
Mega Millions is played successful 45 states arsenic good arsenic Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Powerball drawings are besides streamed present connected Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday astatine 10:59 p.m.
Mega Millions drawings are streamed connected Tuesday and Friday astatine 11:00 p.m.
The New York Lottery is North America's largest and astir profitable, contributing billions of dollars to assistance enactment acquisition successful New York State.
Revenue is distributed to section schoolhouse districts by the aforesaid statutory look utilized to administer different authorities assistance to education. According to the New York lottery, the look takes into relationship some a schoolhouse district's size and its income level; larger, lower-income schoolhouse districts person proportionately larger shares of Lottery schoolhouse funding.
For much accusation astir the New York lottery and to spot lottery results, delight sojourn nylottery.ny.gov..
New Yorkers struggling with a gambling addiction, oregon who cognize idiosyncratic who is, tin find assistance by calling the State's toll-free, confidential HOPEline astatine 1-877-8-HOPENY (1-877-846-7369) oregon by texting HOPENY (467369). Standard substance rates whitethorn apply.
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