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The Mega Thousands and thousands jackpot has surged to a whopping $790 million after no ticket matched all six successful numbers in Friday evening’s drawing.
Friday’s successful numbers had been 14, 40, 60, 64, 66, plus the gold Mega Ball 16, in accordance with the lottery’s web site.
The evening’s $630 million prize was the equal of about $388 million in money, the lottery stated.
The subsequent drawing is scheduled Tuesday, when the money prize is estimated to be $464.4 million.
“There have been solely three lottery jackpots ever received – in any recreation – at a better stage than subsequent Tuesday’s estimated prize of $790 million,” the lottery stated in a information launch.
Two of these had been Mega Thousands and thousands jackpots – $1.537 billion received in South Carolina on October 23, 2018, and $1.050 billion received in Michigan on January 22, 2021.
A $1.586 billion Powerball jackpot is at present the jackpot world file, which was received on January 13, 2016.
Though no one drew the six numbers, there have been 4 massive winners Friday as they drew the primary 5 numbers. Within the case of three of these tickets – offered in Delaware, New Jersey and New York – they’d opted for the Megaplier, giving every a $3 million prize. The fourth ticket to match the 5 numbers was offered in Virginia and was price $1 million, in accordance with the lottery.
4 Mega Thousands and thousands jackpots had been received this 12 months throughout Tennessee, California, New York and Minnesota.
