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The Mega Millions jackpot is even closer to the billion-dollar mark ahead of its fast-approaching Christmas Eve drawing.
The Lottery said at the weekend that Friday night’s drawing had no players with tickets matching all the numbers, bringing the jackpot up to ten figures.
It has climbed to $970 million as of Monday night, the day before Christmas Eve. As a one-time payment, it amounts to $439.9 million.
The jackpot is poised to become the fourth Mega Millions winner of 2024 if someone hits it before the end of the year, according to the lottery.
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The three jackpot prizes that Mega Millions has seen so far this year have occurred in mid-September, early June and late March. They were worth $810 million, $552 million and $1.128 billion, respectively.
The Mega Millions jackpot is inching closer to a billion-dollar jackpot after its latest drawing failed to produce a grand prize winner. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/File)
The $1.128 billion grand prize, won in March and recently claimed, is the biggest lottery jackpot of the year so far and the only one to break the 10-figure mark in 2024 so far, according to Mega Millions.
The jackpot is poised to become the fourth Mega Millions winner of 2024 if someone hits it before the end of the year, according to the lottery. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/File)
The newly discovered $970 million jackpot “would be the largest prize ever won in December and the seventh largest in Mega Millions history” if someone matches all six numbers this month, Mega Millions said. It will also mark only the second time the Christmas Eve jackpot has been won if Tuesday’s drawing produces a grand prize winner.
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Drawings since September, when the Mega Millions jackpot was most recently won, have produced a number of low-level lottery winners. Fifty-six people received windfalls of at least $1 million, while others received smaller amounts, the lottery reported.
Drawings since September, when the Mega Millions jackpot was most recently won, have produced a number of low-level lottery winners. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/File)
Mega Millions plans to hold its Christmas Eve drawing for a grand prize of $970 million at 11 pm Eastern. The odds of getting a jackpot with nine numbers are 1 in 302.6 million.
The Powerball lottery held its $103 million jackpot drawing on Monday evening.
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As of Monday, Powerball has seen nine people win their biggest prize this year, the biggest ever worth $1.326 billion.
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