The drawing for the second largest Mega Millions jackpot in history took place on Friday night. The winning numbers were 67, 45, 57, 36 and 13 with a “Mega Ball” of 14.
It is not yet clear if any winning tickets were sold. The Mega Millions website crashed immediately after the numbers were announced.
The Mega Millions jackpot was loved reach $1.28 billion in Friday night’s drawing, the lottery game said in a press release. If a winner were to take the lump sum of cash, they would walk away with $747.2 million in pre-tax cash.
According to the Associated Press, lottery officials expect the prize to grow to $1.7 billion for Tuesday’s next drawing if no one wins on Friday. This would be the biggest Mega Millions win ever.
The latest Mega Millions the drawing was on tuesday. Although no one won the grand prize, nine tickets won at least $1 million, Mega Millions said. Before this drawing, the CEO of Raising Cane’s said he bought 50,000 Mega Millions tickets, promising to share the victory with his employees if he claimed the jackpot. CEO Todd Graves he said he bought more tickets before the Friday night draw.
The biggest Mega Millions prize was $1.537 billion in 2018, with the winning ticket sold in South Carolina. The next largest Mega Millions prize was $1.05 billion in 2021.
The current jackpot is also the third largest prize in US lottery history, behind a 2016 Powerball drawing. which reached 1,586 million dollarswith winners in California, Florida and Tennessee.
The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 303 million, while the odds of winning any prize are 1 in 24, according to Mega Millions.
