Friday’ Mega Millions jackpot grows to an estimated $1.15-billion!

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December 25th, 2024 by Ric Hanson

(Des Moines, Iowa) – Lottery officials say NO ONE won Tuesday night’s Mega Millions jackpot drawing. The jackpot, which had been estimated at $1-billion, grows to an estimated $1.15-billion for Friday night’s drawing. If won at that level, it would be the fifth largest jackpot in the game’s history! The cash option with that jackpot is $516.1-million.

The white ball numbers drawn Tuesday were: 11-14-38-45-46 and the gold Mega Ball was 3. Around the country, 106 tickets matched four white balls plus the Mega Ball to win the third-tier prize. Thirteen of those are worth $30,000 each because they included the optional Megaplier (available in most states with an extra $1 purchase), which was 3X Tuesday night; the other 93 take home the standard $10,000 each.

In the 30 drawings since the jackpot was last won at $810 million in Texas on September 10, there have been more than 25.7 million winning tickets across all prize tiers. These include 60 second-tier prizes of $1 million or more, won in 25 different jurisdictions from coast to coast. Drawings are conducted at 11 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesdays and Fridays in Atlanta, Georgia. The overall odds of winning any Mega Millions prize are 1 in 24; the odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350.