Record drought without Mega Millions jackpot winner continues – NBC Los Angeles

The record drought without a Mega Millions jackpot winner continues.

There was no jackpot winner in Friday night’s Mega Millions drawing for an estimated $843 million prize. The winning numbers were 48, 70, 23, 21, 16 and a Mega Ball of 5.

That was the 38th drawing since the game’s last jackpot winner, the longest streak in Mega Millions history. There were 37 straight drawings without a winner in 2021 before a $1.05 billion jackpot was struck in Michigan.

While no one hit the jackpot Friday, there were 688,058 winning tickets across all prize tiers totaling a combined $13.8 million in winnings. That includes 16 third-tier winning tickets, led by a $100,000 prize in Georgia.

This record-breaking winless drought now sees the jackpot climb to an estimated $900 million, the eighth-largest amount in Mega Millions history. A potential winner of the next drawing, which is set for Tuesday night, would also have a $415.3 million cash option.

The last Mega Millions jackpot win came in June, when a ticket sold in Virginia secured a $348 million prize.

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The Mega Millions is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands, with drawings taking place on Tuesdays and Fridays. The odds of winning the jackpot are a minuscule 1 in 290,472,336.

A winning ticket in Florida back in August 2023 earned the largest jackpot in Mega Millions history at $1.602 billion. That stands as one of just seven Mega Millions jackpot wins to surpass the $1 billion mark.

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