The Mega Millions' lottery jackpot is approaching $1 billion ahead of Friday’s drawing after no ticket matched all six numbers drawn Tuesday night.
If there is a grand-prize winner in Friday's drawing, that player can choose to receive the $940 million jackpot in installments or a lump-sum cash payment of $472.4 million, Mega Millions said
The winning numbers drawn Friday night were 52, 28, 5, 63, and 10 with a Mega ball of 18. The Megaplier was 5X.
A cashier inserts lottery tickets at a gas station in Trona, California, United States on July 11, 2023. The jackpot for the Mega Millions has reached $940 million. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) / Getty Images)
The jackpot, which is on the verge of hitting $1 billion, is now the fifth-largest Mega Millions prize to date.
The $940 million prize follows a $1.08 billion Powerball prize won by a player July 19 in Los Angeles. California lottery officials haven’t announced a winner for that jackpot, the sixth-largest in U.S. history.
The largest U.S. jackpot was a $2.04 billion Powerball prize won in November 2022.
"Mega Millions" lottery tickets are pictured on a counter as the prize reached $940 million on July 28, 2023. (Reuters/Mike Segar / Reuters Photos)
The last time a massive Mega Millions jackpot was claimed was on April 14, when a winning ticket in New York matched all six numbers to win the grand prize of $483 million or a lump-sum prize of $256.9 million.
The jackpot was won again a few days later on April 18 for $20 million and has continued to rise since then.
The odds of winning the grand prize are 1 in 302,575,350.
A cashier prints out a Mega Millions lottery ticket at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Chino Hills, California, July 28, 2022. (RINGO CHIU/AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Mega Millions tickets are $2 per play and an additional dollar for the Megaplier option. Tickets are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The deadline for purchasing a ticket is 9:45 p.m. on draw nights.