Mega Millions jackpot soars to $1.22 billion for Friday's drawing

Americans inactive dreaming of a truly large Christmas contiguous tin support that imagination live during Friday's Mega Millions drafting for a jackpot worthy an estimated $1.22 ($549.7 cardinal cash) billion.

Friday's jackpot volition perchance beryllium the 5th largest successful the game's history. Mega Millions tickets are $2 a piece. But the likelihood of winning the jackpot are 1 successful 302,575,350, and the likelihood of winning immoderate Mega Millions prize are 1 successful 24, according to lottery officials.

Tickets for the crippled are sold successful 45 states, on with Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Here is simply a look astatine the largest U.S. jackpots won and the states wherever the winning tickets were sold:

1. $2.04 billion, Powerball, Nov. 7, 2022 (one ticket, from California)

2. $1.765 billion, Powerball, Oct. 11, 2023 (one ticket, from California)

3. $1.602 billion, Mega Millions, Aug. 8, 2023 (one ticket, from Florida)

4. $1.586 billion, Powerball, Jan. 13, 2016 (three tickets, from California, Florida, Tennessee)

5. $1.537 billion, Mega Millions, Oct. 23, 2018 (one ticket, from South Carolina)

6. $1.348 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 13, 2023 (one ticket, from Maine)

7. $1.337 billion, Mega Millions, July 29, 2022 (one ticket, from Illinois)

8. $1.326 billion, Powerball, April 7, 2024 (one ticket, Oregon)

9. $1.13 billion, Mega Millions, March 26, 2024 (one ticket, from New Jersey)

10. $1.08 billion, Powerball, July 19, 2023 (one ticket, from California)