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(NEXSTAR) — The Mega Millions jackpot grew to $740 million connected Wednesday aft nary 1 won the large prize successful Tuesday night's drawing. The caller jackpot has a currency worth of $366.3 million.
The adjacent drafting volition beryllium Friday, Sept. 6 astatine 11 PM ET.
Two $1 cardinal Match Five winners were drawn successful Kansas and Michigan.
The existent cookware has been increasing since a $552 cardinal prize was won successful Illinois successful aboriginal June. That prize stands — for present — arsenic the ninth-largest successful Mega Millions history.
The caller $740 cardinal jackpot ranks arsenic the seventh-largest successful crippled history. To ascent immoderate higher successful the rankings, the jackpot volition request to surpass $1 billion, a feat that has happened lone six times successful Mega Millions history.
That includes the $1.128 cardinal prize won by a summons sold successful New Jersey successful March (which has not yet been claimed, according to crippled officials). It ranks arsenic the fifth-largest Mega Millions jackpot.
To go the largest, the cookware would person to surpass $1.602 billion, a threshold acceptable by a azygous summons sold successful Florida past summer.
Here are the 10 largest Mega Millions jackpots connected grounds arsenic good arsenic wherever the existent jackpot ranks:
- $1.602 billion: Aug. 8, 2023; Florida
- $1.537 billion: Oct. 23, 2018; South Carolina
- $1.348 billion: Jan. 13, 2023; Maine
- $1.337 billion: July 29, 2022; Illinois
- $1.128 billion: March 26, 2024; New Jersey
- $1.050 billion: Jan. 22, 2021; Michigan
- Est. $740 cardinal (current jackpot)
- $656 million: Mar. 30, 2012; Illinois, Kansas, and Maryland
- $648 million: Dec. 17, 2013; California and Georgia
- $552 million: June 4, 2024: Illinois
While it’s possible the Mega Millions jackpot volition grow earlier Friday's drawing, it’s improbable to go 1 of the largest among Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots.
Mega Millions is played successful 45 states and the District of Columbia. Tickets are $2 and determination are 9 ways to triumph a prize. The likelihood of winning the game’s apical prize are 1 successful 302.6 million.
Can you summation your chances of winning the Mega Millions jackpot?
Your chances of winning the Mega Millions expansive prize are slim, adjacent somewhat worse than your odds of winning the Powerball jackpot.
Still, immoderate information suggests definite numbers whitethorn beryllium much apt to win. Since October 2017, erstwhile the main shot excavation shifted from 75 to 70 and the Mega Ball excavation grew from 15 to 25, the 5 astir often drawn achromatic balls are 3, 10, 17, 14 and 31, and the astir often drawn golden Mega Balls are 11, 22, 24, 18 and 4, according to Lotto America.
If you similar the acold numbers, oregon those that haven’t been drawn recently, you whitethorn privation to see 41, 52, 39, 13 and 43 for the main pool, and 10, 1, 9, 15 and 18 for the Mega Ball. Trying to prime the close operation of these numbers may beryllium futile, though.
Sticking with the blistery and acold method, you whitethorn adjacent effort buying your summons successful a authorities that has been winning recently, oregon a authorities that’s acold overdue for a win. This year, lone Illinois and New Jersey person sold jackpot-winning tickets, but successful 2023, New York seemed to beryllium the fortunate spot, selling 3 grand-prize-winning stubs.
Twenty states (not including the states that bash not enactment successful Mega Millions) are inactive searching for their archetypal jackpot.
Regardless of whether you play the “hot” oregon “cold” numbers, question crossed authorities lines to acquisition your ticket, oregon usage different method (like lottery wheeling oregon the Delta Lotto System), it’s important to enactment that your likelihood of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are the aforesaid arsenic anyone else’s: 1 successful 302.6 million.
