After no top winners Friday, the next Mega Millions jackpot of 2023 will be the third-largest amount in the game’s history. The estimated prize for the...
Unused lottery tickets can be seen inside a 7-Eleven store in Oakland, Calif., Tuesday, July 26, 2022. Lottery players will be gripping their tickets tightly ahead of the upcoming Mega Millions drawing with an estimated $830 million prize on the line. Updated at 12:00 p.m. Jan. 7: Revised to include information on Tuesday's drawing after no one won the jackpot Friday.
After no top winners Friday, the next Mega Millions jackpot of 2023 will be the third-largest amount in the game’s history.After no ticket matched all six numbers in Friday’s drawing, the jackpot increased by about $160 million. The winning numbers were 3, 20, 46, 59 and 63, plus the gold Mega Ball 13.
The jackpot has only passed $700 million three other times, and each of those prizes eventually surpassed $1 billion before a winner was drawn, according to a Mega Millions news release. There have only been two larger pots — the game’s record at $1.537 billion on Oct. 23, 2018 and $1.337 billion on July 29, 2022.According to Mega Millions, players have a 1 in 24 chance of winning some sort of prize when they play ranging from $2 to the jackpot.
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