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The winning numbers for Tuesday night’s $1.1 cardinal Mega Millions jackpot drafting were 7, 13, 14, 15, 18 with a Mega Ball of 9, the lottery said connected its website.
The jackpot grew to apical the billion-dollar people aft nary summons matched each winning numbers implicit astir the past 3 months.
If there’s a victor successful Tuesday’s drawing, it would beryllium the third-largest jackpot successful Mega Millions history, the lottery announced successful a quality release.
It’s the 4th clip successful conscionable implicit 4 years the apical prize has exceeded $1 billion, Mega Millions said.
The estimated $1.1 cardinal jackpot ($568.7 cardinal cash) is surpassed lone by the lottery’s grounds of $1.537 cardinal won successful South Carolina successful 2018 and the $1.337 cardinal prize won successful Illinois successful July.
Even arsenic the apical prize has gone untouched, the crippled has boasted much than 27 cardinal winning tickets sold since the jackpot was past won connected October 14, including 52 players who snagged $1 cardinal oregon more, Mega Millions said.
“It’s particularly bully to spot the jackpot turn passim the holidays and into the caller year,” Pat McDonald, pb manager of the Mega Millions Consortium, said successful the release. “We are thankful for the enactment of our customers and retailers, which allows each of our 47 subordinate lotteries to make funds for bully causes wrong their jurisdiction. As the jackpot grows, we promote our players to support wrong their amusement fund and bask this jackpot tally close on with us.”
There person been 24 drawings since the past jackpot was claimed successful October, the lottery said.