Mega Millions jackpot nears $1 billion ahead of Friday night’s drawing – WSJM

                   <div id="mobile-search" class="visible-xs"><a data-toggle="modal" href="#myModal"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-search search-mobile"></i></a></div>                     <br>(NEW YORK) &#8212; <span class="s1">The Mega Millions jackpot is now the eighth largest in history ahead of Friday night’s drawing where one lucky person could win an estimated $965 million.</span><br><span class="s1">The jackpot grew from $900 million to where it currently stands after no ticket matched all six numbers drawn Tuesday night.</span><br><span class="s1">The jackpot was last won on June 27.</span><br><span class="s1">The prize has a cash value of $445.3 million which can be offered as a one-time lump sum payment or an immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments.</span><br><span class="s1">After four jackpot wins in the first half of this year, Friday’s drawing will be the 40th drawing in this run, a game record, since it was last won in Virginia on June 27.</span><br><span class="s2">Even though nobody won the jackpot on Tuesday night, there were 809,030 winning tickets across all prize tiers for total nationwide winnings of more than $27.9 million, according to Mega Millions.</span><br><span class="s2">The odds of winning the jackpot at 1 in 290,472,336, according to Mega Millions.Mega Millions is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tickets are $5 for one play.</span><br><span class="s2">The largest Mega Millions jackpot prize ever won was $1.6 billion prize won on Aug. 8, 2023.</span><br>Copyright © 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<br><span class="cff_resized_image_data" data-feedid="cff_993125086meen0010" data-resized="[]"></span><input type="hidden" class="cff-pag-url" data-cff-pag-url="{&quot;99312262508&quot;: &quot;https://graph.facebook.com/v18.0/99312262508/videos?fields=published,source,updated_time,created_time,title,description,embed_html,format%7Bpicture%7D,status&access_token=x_cff_hide_token_x&limit=6&locale=en_US&after=QVFIU1NkZAzFQNmF1T0o5ZAFpBZAGp4MVNvOWxmdlptWXp4ampielJIbGxjWXBmWU1XVVFrYzdQT2dFbEpqOWllUVBLNEZABd05pZAFFTRS1EY1kyTWIyc0N1NHd3"}" data-cff-prev-url="{&quot;99312262508&quot;: &quot;https://graph.facebook.com/v18.0/99312262508/videos?fields=published,source,updated_time,created_time,title,description,embed_html,format{picture},status&access_token=x_cff_hide_token_x&limit=6&locale=en_US"}" data-transient-name="cff_993125086meen0010" data-post-id="501302" data-feed-id="99312262508"  value=""><br />     <a href="javascript:void(0);" id="cff-load-more" class="cff-load-more"   data-cff-bg="" data-cff-hover="" data-no-more="No more posts"><br />               <span>Load more</span><br />    </a> <br><br><a href="https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiowFBVV95cUxOd2FpeFRmYWJLRnZDSkVJaWZHREk4ejhDMTB6NGNHQUJPNDBzOFZ5bUdkSFRJR0VlWUxQRDlELXYzbTdCa0pUQThTUm96Tmt2aElxZWVrSEh4SHFuYVR0VkJWNWI1VnVmd285dk4zZHVOWlpXOFRZN3NiM21WRThfc1lEQ25FaDk0TFJST25VOUVYUDBFdWEyR3FZVUR0amNsRHJj?oc=5">source</a>