{"id":365343,"date":"2025-11-08T21:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T21:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/365343\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T21:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T21:01:09","slug":"mega-millions-jackpot-rockets-to-900m-could-tuesday-be-the-lucky-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/365343\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega Millions jackpot rockets to $900M \u2014 Could Tuesday be the lucky day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sf30.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/sf30.jpg\" alt=\"Ferrari logo\" class=\"wp-image-9758\"  \/><\/a>A car show in Coronado is reflected in a highly polished Ferrari. Photo by Chris Stone<\/p>\n<p>Feeling lucky? Daydreaming about luxurious vacations? A new sports car?<\/p>\n<p>No one hit all six numbers in Friday\u2019s Mega Millions drawing, pushing the estimated jackpot for Tuesday\u2019s drawing to a staggering $900 million \u2014 the 15th-largest lottery prize in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p>There were also no tickets matching five numbers without the Mega Ball, the Mega Millions Consortium, which runs the game, confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The winning numbers from Friday were 16, 21, 23, 48, 70, with the Mega Ball 5. At the time, the jackpot was estimated at $843 million.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s drawing marked the 38th since a ticket last matched all six numbers. The odds of hitting all five numbers plus the Mega Ball are 1 in 290,472,336, while the overall chance of winning any prize is 1 in 23.<\/p>\n<p>If someone wins Tuesday, it would be the eighth-largest jackpot in Mega Ball history. The game, which began in 1996 as The Big Game, was renamed Mega Ball in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Six Powerball jackpots have been larger, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Multi-State Lottery Association, <\/a>which oversees the Powerball game.<\/p>\n<p>Mega Millions is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013City News contributed to this report<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A car show in Coronado is reflected in a highly polished Ferrari. Photo by Chris Stone Feeling lucky?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":365344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[176823,5229,1582,276,6411,176824,167316,22194,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-365343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-900-million","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-lottery","13":"tag-mega-millions-jackpot","14":"tag-november-2025","15":"tag-numbers","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\/115516099241464363","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365343","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=365343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}