There were no winning tickets sold for Tuesday night's $565 million Mega Millions jackpot, so the grand prize for Friday night's drawing will be at least $685 million, the game's website said.
The cash option would be at least $347.8 million.
The $685 million would be the fourth-largest winning jackpot in Mega Millions history, according to the lottery's website. The winning numbers drawn for Tuesday night's jackpot were 9, 13, 36, 59 and 61, with a"Mega Ball" of 11. The last time a Mega Millions jackpot was won was on Oct. 14, when two tickets sold in California and Florida shared a $502 million prize, according to the release.won the second-largest Mega Millions jackpot ever, a whopping $1.337 billion. Mega Millions' largest ever jackpot was $1.537 billion, won in South Carolina in October 2018., the largest in lottery history.
The $640 million is what a winner who takes the annuity option would get. That's paid out over 30 annual installments. But winners usually choose the cash option.And jackpots are split when more than one winning ticket is sold.Mega Millions is played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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