The Jackpot for Tuesday evening’s Mega Millions lottery swelled to an estimated $785 million after no tickets have been sold with all six numbers in the latest drawing.
According to the Multi-State Lottery Association, one ticket with five numbers that was missing the Mega number, worth one million, was sold in Ohio during Friday’s drawing. This is the fourth-largest jackpot in the lottery game's 20-plus-year history and the sixth-largest jackpot in U.S. history.
The numbers drawn Friday were 1, 3, 6, 44, 51 and the Mega number was 7. The estimated jackpot was $685 million.
The most recent time was in July, when an anonymous ticket owner in Des Plaines, Illinois, won a historic $1.34 billion prize.
The Mega Millions jackpot is the largest since a single ticket in California won a record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot on Nov. 8. A winner has yet to be announced.
According to the California Lottery, the odds of matching all five numbers and the Mega number are 1 in 302,575,350.
