Winning numbers were drawn for Friday night’s Mega Millions jackpot drawing, with the grand prize ballooning after 27 consecutive drawings without a winner. The prize grew $23 million on Friday to a total of $815 million due to strong ticket sales.
The winning numbers drawn for Friday’s jackpot were: 13, 25, 50, 51, 66 and gold Mega Ball 6.
The prize has a cash value of $385.1 million, offered as a one-time lump-sum payment, or the winnings can be paid out as one immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments.
The grand prize would be the fifth-largest jackpot in the game’s history behind four billion-dollar winners.
The last jackpot was won on Dec. 8.
There was no big winner in Tuesday’s drawing, which featured numbers 2, 16, 31, 57 and 64 and a gold Mega Ball of 24, but two people won $1 million each for matching five numbers.
Mega Millions forms are stacked and waiting on players on Aug. 7, 2023 in Silver Spring, Md.
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The largest Mega Millions jackpot prize ever won was a $1.6 billion prize claimed on Aug. 8, 2023 in Neptune Beach, Florida.
The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350, according to Mega Millions.
Mega Millions is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tickets are $2 for one play.
Source: abc news
