Mega Millions drawing: No big winner as jackpot hits $418M

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There became no grand prize winner in Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing. It's the 23rd straight drawing without a jackpot winner in the game, relationship lower back to Oct. 13. So the $361 million jackpot will develop to $418 million for Friday.

The winning numbers Tuesday have been 1, 42, forty-seven, 64 and 70, and the Mega Millions range turned into 22.

But you might not wait until Friday for a threat at a large prize.

The competing Powerball game may have a drawing at eleven p.M. ET Wednesday, with a $440 million jackpot at stake.

The combined general of $858 million among the two video games is one of the largest mixed payouts on the document. It's also the primary time each game has had $four hundred million jackpots at the equal time.

Both video games presenting prizes over $three hundred million at the equal time has been uncommon within the beyond. But it is about to end up greater common. That's because there are no longer odds in both video games, leading to much less frequent jackpot winners and for that reason greater frequent large jackpots.

The Mega Millions jackpot hasn't risen above $four hundred million because the summer time of 2016, in step with the lottery, while a winner in Indiana obtained a $536 million prize.

In October, Mega Millions modified the numbers that players could pick out from, bringing the odds of picking all six numbers to 1 in 302.6 million, from 1 to 258.9 million beneath the old format. It also raised the fee for a single price ticket to $2.

The idea becomes to increase the scale of the top prize. And so far, it has labored.

The circulate turned into just like one made by way of Powerball in October 2015. That took the odds of winning that game from 1 in a hundred seventy-five million to 1 in 292 million.

If you're one of those individuals who do better with chances: You have a zero.0000000000000011% risk of winning both video games.

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