$640M Mega Millions Jackpot In Friday Drawing: What To Know In The HV

HUDSON VALLEY, NY — An estimated $640 million Mega Millions jackpot is up for grabs in Friday’s drawing after no one won the winning numbers Tuesday, the 21st straight drawing without a winner.

In Tuesday’s drawing, no ticket matched all six numbers drawn Tuesday night — the white balls 9, 13, 36, 59 and 61, plus the gold Mega Ball 11. Drawings are held at 11 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesdays and Fridays.

If a winning ticket is sold for Friday’s drawing, the winner could be paid with an annuity, doled out through annual payments over 29 years. Nearly all winners take the cash option, which for Friday's drawing will be an estimated $328.3 million.

So far this year, only one big Mega Millions prize has been awarded to a New Yorker, for a ticket sold March 8 — $128 million ($85.8 million cash) won by Herman Kahan of Brooklyn.

There haven't been a lot of big winners from the Hudson Valley in the game's two decades — in fact, just two made the Mega Millions jackpot history list. Here's how New Yorkers have fared with big prizes in the past 20 years, according to Mega Millions records:

• September 21, 2021 - $431 million ($314.4 million cash) won by Goodtimez LLC with a ticket purchased in Manhattan.
• February 16, 2021 - $96 million ($68.5 million cash) won by Leonard and Lorraine Padavan of Blossvale.
• January 1, 2019 - $437 million ($262.2 million cash) won by New Life 2019, LLC, a group of 23 co-workers from Long Island.
• September 22, 2017 - $105 million won by Wayne Harris of Homer.
• January 8, 2016 - $169 million won by Nancy Viola of Staten Island.
• March 24, 2015 - $58 million won by the Lucky 16 Trust of Manhattan.
• November 4, 2014 - $326 million won by Harold Diamond of Wurtsboro.
• March 25, 2014 - $20 million won by Cameron Finney of Suffolk County.
• November 2, 2012 - $33 million won by Philip Cimino of Garden City Park.
• September 18, 2012 - $14 million won by Christopher Manzi of Morganville, N.J. and Willie McPherson of New York City.
• July 3, 2012 - $85 million won by Jin Ok Choi of Staten Island.
• December 27, 2011 - $208 million won by Daniel Bruckner of San Jose, Calif.; ticket bought in Middle Island.
• April 15, 2011 - $72 million won by John Gillen of Staten Island.
• March 25, 2011 - $319 million won by seven coworkers in Albany.
• September 17, 2010 - $54 million won by Garina Fearon of Brooklyn.
• June 22, 2010 - $26 million won by Freddie Hands of Syracuse, Ronald Edwards of Syracuse, and Douglas Tedford of Canastota.
• May 25, 2010 - $64 million jackpot won by Mary Shammas and family of Brooklyn.
• December 22, 2009 - $165 million won by Richard and Mary Morrison of Suffolk County.
• August 28, 2009 - $336 million jackpot - 2 winning tickets ($168 million each): Kevyn Ogawa in San Gabriel, Calif. and James "Jimmy" Groves of the Bronx.
• July 7, 2009 - $133 million won by The Archibald Trust of Queens.
• May 29, 2009 - $35 million won by the Silverbrush Family of Syracuse.
• March 13, 2009 - $26 million won by Isabel Zelaya of Suffolk County.
• January 13, 2009 - $22 million won by Janet Alnwick of Merrick.
• May 23, 2008 - $17 million jackpot - 2 winning tickets ($8.5 million each): Edward & Ellen Hopper of Tompkins Cove, and Terry Hackman of Franklin Grove, Ill.
• April 6, 2007 - $105 million - Gilberto Bueno of Queens.
• November 2, 2007 - $75 million - William James Albertson of Mahopac.
• August 1, 2006 - $31 million - Unclaimed in Queens.
• September 19, 2006 - $12 million - Jose Santiago Morales Sanchez of the Bronx.
• May 7, 2004 - $67 million - Penello Family of Rockaway Beach.
• November 19, 2004 - $149 million - Juan Rodriquez of Queens.
• February 11, 2003 - $128 million - Phin Suy of Brooklyn.
• April 25, 2003 - $46 million - Unclaimed in Brooklyn.
• July 11, 2003 - $34 million - Henrietta Henderson of Uniondale.
• August 27, 2002 $108 million - Group of 11 co-workers from New York City.
• November 19, 2002 - $16 million - Group of co-workers from New York City.
• December 24, 2002 - $68 million - Unclaimed in N.Y.

The current huge Mega Millions jackpot comes less than two months after a record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot was won in California on Nov. 8. No player has yet come forward to claim that prize.

The reason for all the big prizes is simple — long odds of 1 in 302.6 million ensure there are few winners, and the long streaks of lottery futility allow jackpots to grow ever larger week after week.

In the 21 drawings since the jackpot was last won on Oct. 14, there have been more than 17 million winning tickets at all prize levels. These include 40 worth $1 million or more, won in 18 different states from coast to coast including New York plus Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.

Mega Millions is played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The Associated Press contributed reporting.