{"id":490160,"date":"2026-01-03T20:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/490160\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T20:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:08:11","slug":"mega-millions-jackpot-rolls-to-180-million-after-no-big-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/490160\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega Millions jackpot rolls to $180 million after no big winner"},"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\/2026\/01\/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>There\u2019s still time to get rich as no ticket matched all six numbers in the latest Mega Millions drawing, sending the estimated jackpot climbing to $180 million for Tuesday\u2019s draw.<\/p>\n<p>Only one ticket sold in Pennsylvania came close, matching five numbers but missing the Mega number. Thanks to a 4x multiplier, that ticket is worth $4 million, according to the Mega Millions Consortium, which runs the multi-state game.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s winning numbers were 6, 13, 34, 43, and 52, with the Mega Ball number 4. The estimated jackpot heading into the drawing was $157 million.<\/p>\n<p>The drawing marked the ninth since the last time a ticket hit all six numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The odds of matching all five numbers plus the Mega Ball stand at 1 in 290,472,336, the consortium said. The overall chance of winning any prize is 1 in 23.<\/p>\n<p>But why not take a chance and head to your favorite place to buy lotto tickets before tonight?<\/p>\n<p>Mega Millions is played in 45 states, along with the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 City 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) There\u2019s still time to get rich as no&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":348564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[221108,5229,1582,276,209209,176824,22194,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,100419],"class_list":{"0":"post-490160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-180-million","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-january-2026","13":"tag-mega-millions-jackpot","14":"tag-numbers","15":"tag-san-diego","16":"tag-sandiego","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa","23":"tag-winning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115832979897553526","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490160","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=490160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490160\/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=490160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}