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The Mega Millions jackpot<\/a> is now the eighth largest in history ahead of Friday night\u2019s drawing where one lucky person could win an estimated $980 million.<\/p>\n The jackpot grew from $900 million to where it currently stands after no ticket matched all six numbers drawn Tuesday night.<\/p>\n The jackpot was last won on June 27.<\/p>\n Nam Y. Huh\/AP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The prize has a cash value of $452.2 million which can be offered as a one-time lump sum payment or an immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments.<\/p>\n After four jackpot wins in the first half of this year, Friday\u2019s drawing will be the 40th drawing in this run, a game record, since it was last won in Virginia on June 27.<\/p>\n Even though nobody won the jackpot on Tuesday night, there were 809,030 winning tickets across all prize tiers for total nationwide winnings of more than $27.9 million, according to Mega Millions.<\/p>\n The odds of winning the jackpot at 1 in 290,472,336, according to Mega Millions.<\/p>\n Mega Millions is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tickets are $5 for one play.<\/p>\n The largest Mega Millions jackpot prize ever won was $1.6 billion on Aug. 8, 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Mega Millions jackpot is now the eighth largest in history ahead of Friday night\u2019s drawing where one lucky person could win an estimated $980 million. The jackpot grew from $900 million to where it currently stands after no ticket matched all six numbers drawn Tuesday night. The jackpot was last won on June 27. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Mega-Millions-jackpot-nears-1-billion-ahead-of-Friday-nights.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9864,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9862\/revisions\/9864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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