The numbers were 3, 11, 12, 38, 43, with a Mega Ball of 15 and would have drawn the fifth largest jackpot ever.
Mega Millions estimates that its next top prize would be $ 850 million, which would be the third largest of all time. The drawing is Tuesday.
Lottery players still have the chance to win big with Saturday’s draw for a $ 640 million Powerball top prize, the eighth largest jackpot. The chance of winning is one in 292.2 million.
It has been almost two years since a lottery jackpot became so big. No one won both months’ top prize.
The listed jackpot amounts refer to winners who opt for an annuity paid over 30 years. Winners almost always choose cash prizes, which for Powerball would amount to $ 478.7 million. The estimated cash price for the next Mega Millions jackpot is $ 628.2 million.
Mega Millions and Powerball are both played in 45 states as well as Washington, DC and the US Virgin Islands. Powerball is also offered in Puerto Rico.
Look at the ten largest American jackpots won and the states where the winning tickets were sold:
$ 1.586 billion, Powerball, January 13, 2016 (three tickets, from California, Florida, Tennessee)
2. $ 1.537 billion, Mega Millions, October 23, 2018 (one ticket, South Carolina)
$ 768.4 million, Powerball, March 27, 2019 (one ticket, Wisconsin)
$ 758.7 million, Powerball, August 23, 2017 (one ticket, from Massachusetts)
5. $ 687.8 million, Powerball, October 27, 2018 (two tickets from Iowa and New York)
6. $ 656 million, Mega Millions, March 30, 2012 (three tickets, from Kansas, Illinois and Maryland)
7. $ 648 million, Mega Millions, December 17, 2013 (two tickets, from California and Georgia)
8. $ 590.5 million, Powerball, May 18, 2013 (one ticket, from Florida)
$ 587.5 million, Powerball, November 28, 2012 (two tickets, from Arizona and Missouri)
$ 564.1 million, Powerball, February 11, 2015 (three tickets, from North Carolina, Puerto Rico and Texas)
Associated Press contributed to this report
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