Mega Millions jackpot climbs to $940M following no indeed winner

Mega Millions jackpot climbs to USD940M following no indeed indeed winner

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ” The Mega Millions jackpot increased to an estimated USD940 million following another sketch Tuesday resulted inside prosperity of losers nevertheless not a single magnificent prize winner.

The numbers drawn late Tuesday darkness were: 25, 29, 33, 41, 44 accompanied by every one one other accompanied by gold medal medal Mega Ball 18.

The following sketch is scheduled to exist held Friday night.

The new USD940 million jackpot is for a winner who chooses to exist paid into with every one other accompanied by not here of an annuity over 29 years. Nearly all winners opt for a money payout, which for Friday night™s sketch would exist an estimated USD483.5 million.

In Tuesday™s drawing, there were additional than 2.9 million winning tickets of various amounts including trio USD4 million tickets sold inside Arizona, Mississippi accompanied by every one one other accompanied by South Dakota, Mega Millions said inside a statement.

The lack of a winner of an estimated USD785 million jackpot Tuesday means there have been 23 unswerving drawings lacking anyone taking the top prize.

The new jackpot will convey on accompanied by to exist the sixth-largest jackpot inside U.S. history.

The jackpot-winning drought isn™t surprising specified the daunting likelihood of one inside 302.6 million of winning the top prize.

The jackpot is the largest since someone inside California won a record USD2.04 billion Powerball prize on Nov. 8. There still has not been an announced winner of that prize.

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There have been only trio larger Mega Millions jackpots than Friday™s estimated prize inside the game™s 20 years, including USD1.53 billion inside 2018, USD1.05 billion inside 2021 accompanied by every one one other accompanied by USD1.33 billion inside July, Mega Millions said.

Mega Millions is played inside 45 states while well while Washington, D.C., accompanied by every one one other accompanied by the U.S. Virgin Islands.