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There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in Friday evening’s drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery, pushing the estimated jackpot for Tuesday’s drawing to $900 million, the 15th-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history..
There were also no tickets sold with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, the Mega Millions Consortium, which conducts the game, announced.
The numbers drawn Friday were 16, 21, 23, 48, 70 and the Mega number was 5. The estimated jackpot was $843 million.
The drawing was the 38th since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.
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The odds of matching all five numbers and the Mega number is 1 in 290,472,336, according to the Mega Millions Consortium. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 23.
Tuesday’s jackpot will be the eighth-largest in the history of the Mega Millions game, which began in 1996 as The Big Game and was given the new name Mega Millions in 2002.
There have been six Powerball drawings with larger jackpots, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the Powerball game
The Mega Millions game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands.
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