The successful numbers for Friday’s Mega Millions drawing — with a jackpot of $1.35 billion — have been introduced. The successful numbers are: 30, 43, 45, 46, 61 and a Mega Ball of 14.
Friday’s drawing is for the the fourth-largest lottery jackpot ever, and the second-largest in Mega Millions historical past. It was nonetheless unclear if any successful tickets had been bought.
For almost three months there was no lottery winner, Mega Millions mentioned, growing the thrill for Friday’s drawing. There have been 25 drawings for the reason that Mega Millions jackpot was final received on Oct. 14.
A single jackpot winner would have the selection of getting a lump-sum money payout of an estimated $724.6 million earlier than taxes. Or, they may take the annuity choice, which might include 29 annual funds. Each annual cost would common about $45 million, in keeping with the lottery useful resource web site USA Mega.
After federal taxes, and earlier than state taxes, the lump-sum cost would come out to about $446 million, per USA Mega.
If there are a number of winners Friday, they might cut up the jackpot evenly.
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In November, a single successful Powerball ticket bought within the Los Angeles metro space received a $2.04 billion jackpot, the biggest in lottery historical past.
A single South Carolina ticket claimed the biggest Mega Millions jackpot ever at $1.537 billion in October 2018. And in July, a ticket bought in Illinois received a $1.337 billion Mega Millions jackpot, the third largest ever, if Friday’s numbers maintain.
The odds of successful the Mega Millions jackpot are 1 in 302.6 million.
“To put it into perspective, the typical person who is a golfer would have about a 1-in-15,000 chance in making a hole-in-one on a particular hole,” Holy Cross economics professor Victor Matheson instructed CBS News earlier this week. “So winning the Powerball or the Mega Millions is like getting two hole-in-ones in a row when playing golf.”
Matheson mentioned that the Multi-State Lottery Association, a not-for-profit group that coordinates Mega Millions, purposefully engineered the sport to generate giant sums by making it tougher to win the jackpot and growing the value of every ticket from $1 to $2.