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There’s nonetheless time to win large on the lottery earlier than the yr is up.
The Mega Millions jackpot has grown to an estimated $565 million after nobody took dwelling the highest prize in Friday’s drawing. The subsequent drawing is ready for December 27, and if somebody wins the jackpot, it could be the sixth-largest prize within the recreation’s historical past, in keeping with the Mega Millions web site.
Friday’s profitable numbers had been 15, 21, 32, 38, 62 and the Mega Ball 8. Though no ticket matched all six numbers in that drawing, two tickets offered in California and Illinois matched 5 and claimed the second-highest prize, the lottery mentioned in a news launch. The final time the Mega Millions jackpot was received was on October 14, when two tickets offered in California and Florida shared a $502 million prize.
Lottery jackpots have gotten greater and larger in recent times as video games have expanded to extra states and added extra quantity combos. And because the jackpots develop bigger, extra folks purchase tickets, making the percentages of profitable more and more smaller.
In July, a ticket in Illinois received a jackpot of almost $1.34 billion – the second largest Mega Millions jackpot and the third largest of any US lottery recreation. Two folks got here ahead to assert it in October and opted to take the lump sum fee of $780.5 million, in keeping with the Illinois Lottery.
The largest ever Mega Millions jackpot was about $1.54 billion, received by a ticket in South Carolina in 2018. Seven of the 10 highest Mega Millions jackpots have been received within the final 5 years.
The odds of profitable the Mega Millions lottery are about 1 in 302.5 million.