The vacation buying groceries season — for Mega Hundreds of thousands lottery price ticket patrons, a minimum of — is ramping up as officers say the estimated jackpot for Tuesday night time’s drawing has surpassed part one billion greenbacks.
Today Monday, lottery officers estimate Tuesday’s prize at $565 million — or greater than $293 million if delivered in money — after there have been no fortunate winners conserving a price ticket that matched all six numbers within the final drawing hung on Friday.
Tuesday’s drawing shall be held at 11 p.m. EST.
Tickets bought in California and Florida for an Oct. 14 drawing shared the final Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpot of $502 million. The lottery’s most sensible prize has been construction anew over 20 drawings held since then.
Lottery officers say there were 11 profitable jackpots of $500 million or extra since Mega Hundreds of thousands started in 2002. The report Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpot is greater than $1.5 billion, received in 2018, and a jackpot surpassing $1.3 billion used to be received in Illinois in July.