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Nobody managed to beat the huge odds and match all six numbers for Friday’s estimated $940 million jackpot.
The Mega Tens of millions jackpot climbed to an estimated $1.05 billion Friday evening, solely the fifth time within the historical past of the sport that the grand prize has reached into the billions.
Nobody managed to beat the huge odds and match all six numbers for Friday’s estimated $940 million jackpot. The numbers drawn have been: 5, 10, 28, 52, 63 and the gold ball 18.
There have been 29 straight attracts and not using a Mega Tens of millions jackpot winner because the final grand prize ticket on April 18.
The $1.05 billion prize up for grabs within the subsequent drawing Tuesday evening could be for a sole winner selecting to be paid via an annuity, with annual funds over 30 years. Jackpot winners virtually at all times go for a lump sum fee, which for Tuesday’s drawing could be an estimated $527.9 million.
The potential jackpot is the fourth-largest within the sport and the fifth over $1 billion, Mega Tens of millions stated in a press release early Saturday.
Though there have been no jackpot winners, one ticket in Pennsylvania was price $5 million and one other within the state related for $1 million. There additionally have been $1 million winners in Arizona, California and New York, Mega Tens of millions stated.
It has been lower than two weeks since somebody in Los Angeles received a $1.08 billion Powerball prize that ranked because the sixth-largest in U.S. historical past. The winner of the prize remains to be a thriller.
Lottery jackpots develop so massive as a result of the percentages of successful are so small. For Mega Tens of millions, the percentages of successful the jackpot are about 1 in 302.6 million.
Winners additionally could be topic to federal taxes, and lots of states additionally tax lottery winnings.
Mega Tens of millions is performed in 45 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.