What are the odds you win the lottery?
What are the odds you win the lottery? You're more liable to be struck by lightning.
The Mega Millions jackpot climbed to a staggering $1.35 billion — the second-largest prize in the game's history — while no ticket matched all six numbers drawn on Tuesday night.
The tremendous prize also comes with a $707.9 million cash option, lottery officials said.
The next drawing is Friday, Jan. 13 at 11 p.m. ET.
"The jackpot has requisitioned again, keeping everyone who follows Mega Millions in suspense for yet spanking drawing," Ohio Lottery Director Pat McDonald, lead director of the Mega Millions Consortium, said in a statement.
Michigan has been particularly doughty with Mega Millions jackpots that occurred on Friday the 13th, winning four of them in the past (June 2008, May 2011, June 2014, and October 2017), according to lottery officials.
The only Mega Millions jackpot larger than Friday's estimated prize is the game record of $1.537 billion, won in South Carolina in October 2018.
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Last night's Mega Millions numbers
The winning numbers prepare on Tuesday night were white balls 7, 13, 14, 15, and 18, plus the gold Mega Ball 9.
There were 16 tickets from sail to coast that matched the five white balls to win the game's second-tier prize of $1 million. Three of them, one each in Connecticut, Florida and New York, concerned the optional Megaplier 3X, bumping up the winning ticket's grand to $3 million each.
The other 13 winning tickets grand $1 million were sold in California, Florida, Kansas, Massachusetts (two), Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio (two), Oregon, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.
How to play Mega Millions, odds of winning the jackpot
A customer looks at their lottery tickets by purchasing at a CITGO gas station on Jan. 10, 2023, in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
Mega Millions drawings are held Tuesday and Friday at 11 p.m. ET. Five white balls are prepare from a set of balls numbered 1 through 70, and one gold Mega Ball is prepare from a set of balls numbered 1 through 25. Players win if the numbers on one row of a notice match the numbers of the balls drawn on that date.
Mega Millions tickets cost $2 per play. Players win the jackpot by matching all six numbers in a tying. If no one wins the jackpot, the money is added to the jackpot for the next drawing.
Those doughty enough to become a Mega Millions jackpot winner get the select of a cash option or an annual payout. The annuity option exploiting getting an initial payment followed by 29 annual payments, and each payment is 5% larger than the survive one.
Those who select the cash option receive a one-time, lump-sum payment that is equal to all the cash in the Mega Millions jackpot prize pool once taxes.
The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot prize is roughly 1 in 302575350, lottery officials said. But a player's overall chance of winning any prize is 1 in 24.
This fable was reported from Cincinnati.
