{"id":348563,"date":"2025-11-01T18:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T18:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/348563\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T18:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T18:43:11","slug":"feeling-lucky-mega-millions-jackpot-soars-to-800-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/348563\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling lucky? Mega Millions jackpot soars to $800 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG-20140710-01000-e1405028807944.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20140710-01000-e1405028807944-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Lottery tickets\" class=\"wp-image-6575\"  \/><\/a>California lottery ticket. (Photo by Alexander Nguyen\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n<p>If you didn\u2019t hit the jackpot Friday night, you\u2019re not alone \u2014 no one did. The Mega Millions drawing came and went without a single ticket matching all six numbers, sending Tuesday\u2019s prize soaring to an eye-popping $800 million \u2014 the 16th-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s lucky (or not-so-lucky) numbers were 2, 24, 52, 66, 68 and the Mega number 9. The pot had already reached $754 million, but since no one snagged the big one \u2014 or even all five numbers without the Mega \u2014 it\u2019s rolling over yet again.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the 36th drawing since someone last matched every number, which makes Tuesday night\u2019s drawing one to watch.<\/p>\n<p>For those wondering just how tough it is to strike it rich, the odds of hitting all five numbers plus the Mega are a mind-boggling 1 in 290,472,336. Your overall chance of winning anything? About 1 in 23 \u2014 not bad for dreamers.<\/p>\n<p>If the stars align on Tuesday, the winner would claim the ninth-largest Mega Millions prize ever. The game first launched in 1996 as The Big Game before rebranding to Mega Millions in 2002, and is now played in 45 states, plus D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands.<\/p>\n<p>And in case you\u2019re keeping score, Powerball still holds seven of the top spots for the biggest jackpots ever, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association.<\/p>\n<p>So, check those tickets \u2014 and maybe grab a new one. You never know.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013City News Service contributed to this report<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California lottery ticket. (Photo by Alexander Nguyen\/Times of San Diego) If you didn\u2019t hit the jackpot Friday night,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":348564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[23422,170933,5229,1582,276,66792,170934,167316,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-348563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-800-million","9":"tag-16th-largest-lottery-jackpot-in-u-s-history","10":"tag-america","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-drawing","14":"tag-mega-millions-lottery","15":"tag-november-2025","16":"tag-san-diego","17":"tag-sandiego","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115475920853846800","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}