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Mega Millions is once again flirting with the billion-dollar mark, with Friday’s potential jackpot at $965 million after no tickets matched all six numbers on Tuesday, lottery officials said.
Tuesday night’s numbers were 10, 13, 40, 42 and 46, with a gold Mega Ball of 1. Friday’s estimated jackpot is already the eighth largest since the game’s 2002 inception, with the seven above it topping $1 billion, Mega Millions said in a statement.
This will be a record 40th drawing for a single run, lottery officials noted, since the last time all six numbers were matched was on June 27 in Virginia, to the tune of $348 million. The anonymous winner claimed their windfall — a cool pre-tax cash option of $155.6 million — in August.
Although no one snagged the biggest prize on Tuesday, 809,030 tickets nationwide won at least something, with those winnings totaling nearly $30 million overall, the lottery office said. Three tickets that matched the five white ball numbers netted more than a million dollars each, including a lucky New Yorker who won $3 million.
Mega Millions has posted more prizes yielding higher winnings since it tweaked its formula in April and started charging $5 per ticket instead of $2. Jackpots now reset to $50 million after a big win instead of the previous $20 million, and smaller prizes offer built-in multipliers that increase winnings as much as tenfold.
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