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No winner emerged within the $565 million Mega Millions jackpot drawing on Tuesday evening, and which means some fortunate ticket-buyer has an opportunity of taking house an estimated $640 million ($328 million in money) within the last Mega Millions drawing of 2022.
The jackpot rolled over as a result of no one picked all six numbers in Tuesday’s drawing: the white balls 9, 13, 36, 59 and 61, plus the gold Mega Ball with the quantity 11. The final drawing of the yr can be held on Friday at 11 p.m. ET.
The jackpot would be the largest Mega Millions prize ever provided within the last week of any yr “and could provide someone with a very happy New Year’s celebration,” the lottery web site stated.
The Mega Millions jackpot has topped $600 million simply 5 instances in its greater than 20-year historical past, the lottery stated. It final occurred on July 29 when an nameless partnership bought a ticket in Illinois to win $1.3 billion (or $780 million in money).
That was the second-largest Mega Millions jackpot ever gained. The largest was $1.5 billion, which was claimed by a South Carolina ticket purchaser within the October 23, 2018, drawing.
Jackpot winners can accumulate their cash in two methods: a one-time money fee or the annuity choice, which offers an preliminary fee, adopted by 29 annual funds.
Mega Millions is performed in 45 states, the District of Columbia and the US Virgin Islands. The lottery says the percentages of profitable that jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350.