{"id":639378,"date":"2026-03-07T20:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/639378\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T20:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:21:15","slug":"533-million-jackpot-up-for-grabs-no-one-won-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/639378\/","title":{"rendered":"$533 million jackpot up for grabs \u2014 no one won Friday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG-20140710-01000-e1405028807944.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG-20140710-01000-e1405028807944-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Lottery tickets\" class=\"wp-image-6575\"  \/><\/a>California lottery ticket. (File photo by Alexander Nguyen\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n<p>The Mega Millions jackpot is ballooning again. Friday night, nobody hit all six numbers, sending Tuesday\u2019s estimated top prize soaring to $533 million\u2014and the next lucky winner could take it all.<\/p>\n<p>Two near-misses kept the excitement alive: a Florida ticket with a 4x multiplier scored $4 million, while an Arizona ticket with a 2x multiplier pocketed $2 million, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.megamillions.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mega Millions Consortium<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers drawn Friday were 8, 19, 26, 38, 42, with 24 as the Mega Ball. Going into the drawing, the jackpot had been $496 million, and Friday marked the 27th consecutive drawing without a grand-prize winner.<\/p>\n<p>The odds of matching all five numbers plus the Mega Ball? 1 in 290,472,336. The overall chance of winning any prize is 1 in 35.<\/p>\n<p>Mega Millions is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.<\/p>\n<p>(City News Service contributed to this report)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California lottery ticket. (File photo by Alexander Nguyen\/Times of San Diego) The Mega Millions jackpot is ballooning again.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":348564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5134],"tags":[272277,5229,1582,276,75770,13107,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-639378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-533-million","tag-america","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-jackpot","tag-mega-millions","tag-san-diego","tag-sandiego","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639378","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=639378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639378\/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=639378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}