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(Trends Wide) — The first Mega Millions drawing of 2023 was left without a winner, meaning the next draw on Friday will have a prize of $940 million, according to the lottery.
The winning numbers for Tuesday’s draw were 25, 29, 33, 41 and 44, with the Mega Ball being 18, according to the Mega Millions website. No ticket matched all six winning numbers, bringing the prize for Friday, if cashed, to an estimated $483.5 million.
“In the more than 20 years since the game began in 2002, there have been only three jackpot prizes larger than Friday’s estimated prize,” Mega Millions said in a press release.
Tuesday’s drawing featured nearly 3 million winning tickets with prizes ranging from $2 to $4 million, the lottery said. Six tickets matched the first five numbers, winning the lottery’s second-highest prize of $1 million each, the lottery said.
The biggest jackpot in history was $1.537 million, won by one outrageously lucky winner in 2018.
The last jackpot was won in October, and the number of winning tickets at all prize levels has been growing across the country, the lottery said.
Trends Wide’s Aya Elamroussi contributed to this report.
