There is still time to win the lottery before the end of the year.
the jackpot [prêmio máximo] Mega Millions jackpot grew to an estimated $565 million after no one took home the top prize in Friday’s draw.
The next draw is scheduled for December 27th, and if someone wins the jackpot, it will be the sixth biggest prize in the history of the game, according to the Mega Millions website.
Friday’s winning numbers were 15, 21, 32, 38, 62 and the Mega Ball 8. While no tickets matched the six numbers in that drawing, two tickets sold in California and Illinois matched five and claimed the second highest prize. , said the lottery in a press release.
The last time the Mega Millions jackpot was won was on October 14, when two tickets sold in California and Florida shared a prize pool of $502 million.
Lottery jackpots have been getting bigger and bigger in recent years as games have expanded to more states and added more combinations of numbers. And as the jackpots grow, more people buy tickets, making the odds of winning even smaller.
In July, a ticket in Illinois won a jackpot of nearly $1.34 billion — the second-largest Mega Millions jackpot and the third-largest of any US lottery game. Two people came forward to claim it in October and opted to accept the one-time payment of $780.5 million, according to the Illinois lottery.
The biggest ever Mega Millions jackpot was about $1.54 billion, won by a ticket in South Carolina in 2018. Seven of the top ten Mega Millions jackpots were won in the last five years.
The odds of winning the Mega Millions lottery are around 1 in 302.5 million.
Source: CNN Brasil
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