Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpot closes in on $1 billion after newest drawing

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Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpot closes in on  billion after newest drawing

Mega Hundreds of thousands’ jackpot edged nearer to the billion-dollar mark after its newest drawing introduced no grand-prize winner. 

The lottery stated Tuesday evening’s drawing didn’t have any gamers with tickets matching the entire numbers, pushing the jackpot to an annuitized $825 million. As a one-time money payout, it quantities to $382.2 million.

The jackpot is poised to change into Mega Hundreds of thousands’ fourth grand-prize win of 2024 if somebody lands it earlier than the tip of the 12 months, in response to the lottery.

The three jackpot wins that Mega Hundreds of thousands has seen thus far this 12 months occurred in mid-September, early June and late March. They had been price $810 million, $552 million and $1.128 billion, respectively.

The $1.128 billion grand prize, received in March and nonetheless unclaimed, is the lottery’s largest of the 12 months thus far and its just one to interrupt 10-figures in 2024 up to now, in response to Mega Hundreds of thousands.

The at present up-for-grabs $825 million jackpot “could be the biggest prize ever received in December and the seventh largest in Mega Hundreds of thousands historical past” within the occasion somebody matches all six numbers this month, Mega Hundreds of thousands stated. 


The Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpot is now $825 million. AP

Drawings carried out since September, when the Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpot was most not too long ago received, have produced a large number of lower-level lottery winners. Fifty-one folks have scored windfalls of at the very least $1 million, and others have obtained smaller sums, the lottery reported.

Mega Hundreds of thousands plans to conduct its subsequent drawing for the $825 million grand prize on Friday night. The probabilities of touchdown the nine-figure jackpot are 1 in about 302.6 million.


A customer purchasing a Mega Millions lottery ticket at a supermarket in Miami, Florida, with the jackpot at over 1 billion dollars
The subsequent drawing is Friday night. Getty Pictures

Fellow lottery Powerball additionally has a jackpot rolling, although it’s at present significantly smaller than Mega Hundreds of thousands’.

The jackpot for Powerball hovered round $69 million forward of its Wednesday evening drawing. Its money worth was $32.2 million, in response to that lottery.


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