Here are the winning numbers for Tuesday's Mega Millions $565M jackpot
FILE - A man holds Mega Millions lottery tickets on July 29, 2022, in New York City. (Photo by John Smith/VIEWpress
Feeling lucky? The Mega Millions numbers just dropped.
The Jackpot soared past an estimated $565 million ahead of Tuesday’s drawing, officials said.
Here are the official numbers for Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022:
9 - 13 - 36 - 59 - 61 and Megaball 11
Megaplier was 2x
After no one matched all six numbers during Friday night’s drawing, the Mega Millions prize has also reached a $293.6 million cash option.
If won at that level, it would be the sixth-largest prize ever offered in the game, lottery officials said. Since Mega Millions began in May 2002, there have been 11 winning jackpots of $500 million or more, including three that topped $1 billion.
The record Mega Millions jackpot is $1.537 billion, won in South Carolina in October 2018.
Thirty-one tickets matched four white balls plus the Mega Ball to win the game’s third prize of $10,000 for each winner. Officials said 4 of those tickets were actually worth $40,000 each because they also included the optional Megaplier — a $1 extra purchase available in most states — which was 4X on Friday night
Mega Millions drawings are held Tuesday and Friday at 11 p.m. ET. Five white balls are drawn from a set of balls numbered 1 through 70, and one gold Mega Ball is drawn from a set of balls numbered 1 through 25. Players win if the numbers on one row of a ticket 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 drawing. If no one wins the jackpot, the money is added to the jackpot for the next drawing.
Those lucky enough to become a Mega Millions jackpot winner get the choice of a cash option or an annual payout. The annuity option means getting an initial payment followed by 29 annual payments, and each payment is 5% larger than the previous 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 after taxes.
The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot prize is roughly 1 in 302,575,350, lottery officials said. But a player’s overall chance of winning any prize is 1 in 24.https://www.foxla.com/news/mega-millions-drawing-jackpot-565-million-dec-27-2022
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