Mega Millions Jackpot Grows To $1.1B After No Winners Friday

ACROSS AMERICA — For the second time in less than six months, the Mega Millions jackpot soared past $1 billion after Friday's drawing yielded no winners.

No ticket matched all six numbers drawn Friday night. The winning numbers were 3, 20, 46, 59, and 63, and the Mega Ball was 13.

Drawings are held at 11 p.m. ET on Tuesdays and Fridays.

The jackpot for Tuesday's drawing sits at an estimated $1.1 billion, the third-largest in the game's history, according to a news release. The only larger jackpots were $1.537 billion won in South Carolina in 2018 and $1.337 billion won in Illinois last July.

The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot — about 1 in 302.6 million — don’t increase when ticket sales spike, but they are better than the odds a meteor will hit your house, according to a report from Business Insider. And the odds of a perfect NCAA basketball bracket chosen by a coin flip are 9,223,372,036,854,775,808, or 1 in 9.2 quintillion.

Although jackpot winners can choose to be paid through an annuity, with annual checks over 29 years, nearly all take the cash payout. For Tuesday’s drawing, that’s an estimated $568.7 million.

Despite no one winning the jackpot, more than 4.4 million tickets won prizes at other levels. Five tickets matched the five white balls to win the game's $1 million prize — two were sold in New York and one in Florida, Maryland and New Jersey.

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