""While the jackpot remains elusive, the number of winners -- and total prizes won -- continues to grow," lottery officials said. "Through this jackpot run to date, there have been almost 11.7 million winning tickets at all levels, with total prizes exceeding $274 million thanks to significant enhancements in the lower-tier prizes after the game changed last April.""
""In the Nov. 4 drawing alone, there were 606,046 winning tickets across all prize tiers, for total nationwide winnings of more than $12.2 million," officials said."
"The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 290,472,336, according to Mega Millions."
The Mega Millions jackpot is estimated at $843 million for Friday's drawing. The winning numbers for Friday's drawing are: 48, 70, 23, 21, 16 and the Mega Ball is 5. The current drawing is the 38th since the jackpot was last won in Virginia on June 27, the longest streak without a jackpot winner since the game began in 2002. There have been almost 11.7 million winning tickets across all prize levels during the run, with total prizes exceeding $274 million and 256 third-tier winners ranging from $20,000 to $100,000. Odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 290,472,336. Mega Millions is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands; tickets cost $5 per play. The largest Mega Millions jackpot ever won was $1.6 billion on Aug. 8, 2023.
Read at ABC7 San Francisco
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