In the United States, the Mega Millions lottery jackpot has soared to $1.02 billion after no ticket matched all six numbers in Tuesday’s draw, the lottery said.
“All jurisdictions have reported, and no one has hit the Mega Millions jackpot. So the jackpot will go up to $1,025,000,000 on Friday ($602.5 million in cash),” lottery spokeswoman Marie Kilbane told CNN, in an email.
Tuesday night’s winning numbers were 7, 29, 60, 63, 66 and the Mega Ball 15. The next draw will be on Friday (29).
While no one hit the jackpot on Tuesday, a few winners took home big prizes. Eight tickets won $1 million each after matching the first five numbers.
And the prize for another winning ticket, sold in Ohio, that matched the first five numbers was $3 million, because it included an optional bonus purchased for an extra $1.
If there is a winning ticket on Friday, the $1.02 billion jackpot will be the third-largest Mega Millions jackpot prize in the game’s 20-year history, according to the Mega Millions website.
The biggest Mega Millions jackpot was $1.537 billion on October 23, 2018, for a ticket sold in South Carolina, the lottery said. A $1.05 billion jackpot was won by a group of four players in Michigan on January 22, 2021.
In 24 hours, traffic to the Mega Millions website reached 62 million requests, Kilbane said. There was so much traffic on the Mega Millions website on Tuesday night that just after 11pm the website was down for a while.
Four Mega Millions jackpots were drawn this year in the US states of Tennessee, California, New York and Minnesota.
Source: CNN Brasil
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